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DR. POST, who is known to chemists as an able Privat Docent at the University of Göttingen, has, like many other teachers, felt the great necessity of a manual of chemical technology, suited to the requirements of students who desire a general training in that branch of applied chemistry. A considerable number of excellent treatises, as, for example, those of Knapp, Wagner, Bolley, Kerl, and Stohmann, already exist in German, and some of them have been translated into English, but no one of them is exactly adapted to the class-room. Their excellence consists in their completeness as works of reference; indeed as such they may be said to be invaluable to the chemical manufacturer; but the mode of their arrangement renders them of comparatively little value as aids to systematic study. Dr. Post has succeeded in producing a work which, within the compass of some of our smaller chemical manuals presents a complete outline of the present position of chemical technology. His book thus serves as a fitting introduction to the larger and more special treatises above mentioned.
Grundriss der chemischen Technologie.
Von Dr. Jul. Post. (Berlin: Robert Oppenheim, 1877.)
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Grundriss der chemischen Technologie . Nature 16, 83 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016083a0
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