This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... A Lecture (with Additions), Delivered In The Yorkshire College, Leeds, Introductory To The Evening Class Session, 1877-78. Thomas Graham, one of the most original chemical thinkers of this century, was born in Glasgow on 21st December 1805. The house in St. Andrew's Square, in the east end of the city ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... A Lecture (with Additions), Delivered In The Yorkshire College, Leeds, Introductory To The Evening Class Session, 1877-78. Thomas Graham, one of the most original chemical thinkers of this century, was born in Glasgow on 21st December 1805. The house in St. Andrew's Square, in the east end of the city, in which he first saw the light, is still standing. The Grahams belonged to Perthshire, but the father of the chemist, James Graham, had removed to Glasgow when very young, and ultimately became what was then styled a manufacturer. His business was sufficiently prosperous to enable him to give his son the benefit of a sound education. When scarcely six years old young Graham was sent to an English preparatory school, whence he was removed in 1814 to the High School, and at fourteen years of age he began his university career, entering, amongst others, the classes of Thomas Thomson on Chemistry and Meikleham on Natural Philosophy. He was a quiet, studious boy, conscientious and diligent in his work, but not otherwise remarkable among his fellows. Thomas Thomson seems to have possessed, in a high degree, the faculty of communicating his own spirit of inquiry to his pupils. "Don't you think, Doctor," said Graham on one occasion to his teacher, "that when liquids absorb gases the gases themselves become liquids?" This remark, coming from so young a pupil, and uttered at a time when the mutual relations of the physical states of matter were more vaguely understood than now, naturally impressed Thomson. The interest thus awakened in the young enthusiast never subsequently slumbered, and it was remarked by many that, in their meetings as members of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Thomson invariably treated Graham with an amount of respect...
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