The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Arts, Vol. 1: Intended to Illustrate the Most Useful, Novel and Interesting Parts of Natural History and ... and the Art of Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Arts, Vol. 1: Intended to Illustrate the Most Useful, Novel and Interesting Parts of Natural History and Experimental Philosophy, Artistical Processes, Ornamental Manufactures, and the Art of Life

It is not intended to interfere with any of the mechanical magazines which periodically issue from the press - its object being very different from theirs, and its design much greater and more comprehensive.

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Excerpt from The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Arts, Vol. 1: Intended to Illustrate the Most Useful, Novel and Interesting Parts of Natural History and Experimental Philosophy, Artistical Processes, Ornamental Manufactures, and the Art of Life

Our Editorial labors for the first year are now concluded, and it is with some gratification, that we complete this the first volume of

The Magazine Of Science And School Of Arts.

We began by a plain, straightforward statement (see page 2,) of our object and intentions, determined to act up to them to the best of our ability. We have done so and can boldly appeal to our friends and constant readers - whether we have not exceeded our promises? We have recorded every thing new and valuable - we have explained numerous most important Philosophical Instruments - have ourselves written nearly Two Hundred Original Papers, explanatory of interesting Processes, (some of which were never before made public) or on Scientific Manipulation - have answered One Hundred and Seventy Queries, and conducted, we trust with courtesy and attention, an extensive Correspondence. If we have delayed for a week or two, at any time, to give the information sought after, it has been only because we were desirous, in the meantime, to search out the best and fullest information - thus, the request of a single receipt 1 ms often produced a full description - a hint has suggested an interesting process. Hence have arisen the papers on Gilding, Lackering, Bronzing, Medalling, and very many others; which, we flatter ourselves, are useful to all future inquirers. Had this plan not been adopted, our Magazine would have been "a thing of shreds and patches;" at present, however individual patience may have been tried, the general value of the volume has been greatly Increased, for all is, as far as possible fur us to have made it, fully perfect, complete, and instructive.

The above will easily account for the circumstance that so many scientific subjects have not hitherto been explained - Galvanism, Electro-Magnetic Action, Pneumatics, the Lucernal and Oxy-hydrogen Microscope, Polarization of Light, some departments of the Fine Arts, particularly the different styles of Engravings Lithography, &c. - the subjects of Varnishing, Assaying, Botany, Geology, and numerous others. Some of these have been long prepared, and will be immediately entered into in the second volume.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.