Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Boussingault: Chemist and Agriculturist

Boussingault: Chemist and Agriculturist

McCosh, F. W. J.

Paperback

Series: Chemists and Chemistry, Book 2

Biographies GeneralChemistryGeneral Gardening

ISBN10: 9400962991
ISBN13: 9789400962996
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 12 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
It was the British music critic Neville Cardus, writing on Debussy, who remarked how the great sea of Wagner threatened to overwhelm the world of nineteenth century music. 1 There is an analogy in mid-nineteenth- century agriculture where the great sea of Justus von Liebig developed a tidal wave which to this day conceals much of the original work and merit of others in the same field. Not only the general public but even students of agriculture may, or may not, recall the names of Persoz, Kuhlmann and Ville in France, Thaer and Sprengel in Germany, or even Lawes and Gilbert in England, to mention a few of them, whose pioneer works were not pub- licised in the same didactic and polemical manner as those of Liebig. Among such pioneers was Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887) whose funda- mental researches contributed to the emergence of agriculture from an empirical corpus of facts to the status of a science. Yet apart from his work in animal and crop science he also engaged in metallurgical investigations, biology and pure chemistry. The scientific world was already approaching the end of an era in which it was possible to embrace several disciplines adequately. With increasing specialisation, institutionalism and profeSsionalism in science the polymath was a gradually disappearing species.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Biographies General

View All