The Love of Chemistry

These touching phrases were written by Scheele in 1775, three years after the discovery of oxygen. (You may notice that this corresponds to a different year of oxygen s discovery than that given in section 11.2 Retouches section 5.R.2 gives more detail on the history of the different phases of the discovery of oxygen.) 

FIGURE 11.7 Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682). (This image, which is in the public domain, was obtained from http //commons.wikimedia.0rg/wiki/File Jjbecher.jpg.) 

I was very moved, and as you can see from the blurred photo, I also moved physically. It suddenly dawned on me in this bizarre set of circumstances that chemistry is a universal human culture knowing no boundaries. .. 

FIGURE 11.8 Equipment of a chemistry teacher in a hotel on the way to Hanoi from Dien Bien Phu (photograph taken by the author). 

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What the Society is and must continue above all else to be is a fellowship of those who share the love of chemistry, that most splendid child of intellect and art. Chemistry provides not only a mental discipline, but an adventure and an aesthetic experience. Its followers seek to know the hidden causes which underlie the transformations of our changing world,... 

Racheli Sason, the readers may be quite confused how the love of chemistry turns into this sober assessment... 

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