Octave Segurの『化学書簡集』について
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There is a work on chemistry of the name of the Seimi-Kankai shown as an abbreviation by means of the phonetic symbols of Chinese characters among the reference books consulted by Yoan Udagawa in his preparation of the Seimi-Kaiso. The former seems to have played a pretty important part in the writing of the latter. The present writer was able to identify the Seimi-Kankai by suggestion from the meaning of Chinese characters as the Brieven over de Grondbeginselen der Scheikunde (1817) (the title of the original French edition is Lettres elementaire sur la chimie, 1803) of Octave Segur. The book of Octave Segur has an uncommon style of a collection of letters on chemistry which was exchanged by the author, a student of Ecole polytechnique, with his friends, earnest amateurs in chemistry, who lived in the country that was not so remote from Paris. These letters are a collection of notes on lectures that the author attended in Ecole polytechnique and as a matter of course, it is clear that this book (the Letters) had been compiled according to the plan of chemical course of Ecole polytechnique in its early days. It is considered that there were few such interesting and unconventional books of this style in those days. The purpose of the Letters is to refer to the most elementary course of chemistry for the sake of eager students and amateurs and to be further an easier guide to a first manual of chemistry. In spite of its unusual style the matters and the articles in this book are in reality arranged in good order and the illustrations of copperplate engraving are employed effectively in the explanation of the processes of preparing chemicals and of chemical operations. Yoan Udagawa employed successfully the quotations - all-inclusive summaries, and digressions amplifying the main discourses - from the Letters at important points of his description and arranged cleverly in appropriate passages of his book several copies of the illustrations of copperplate from the same such as "Extraction of oxygen from oxide of manganese", "Extraction of phosphorus from concrete phosphoric acid", "Formation of pyrophorus", "Extraction of volatile oils by distillation" and others. It appears that Yoan followed the plan that Octave Segur tried in his Letters.
- 日本科学史学会の論文
- 1975-06-30