EDUCATION

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL

Ballantyne Press

BALLANTYNE AND HANSON, EDINBURGH

CHANDOS STREET, LONDON

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL

OR

HOW THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES ARE TAUGHT

AND

HOW THEY OUGHT TO BE TAUGHT

"

BY

ROBERT GALLOWAY, M.R.I.A., F.C.S.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF THE LEIGH UNIVERSITY, U.S.
AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON FUEL, SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL;" "A MANUAL OF
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;" "THE STUDENT'S GUIDE IN THE HIGHER BRANCHES
OF CHEMISTRY;" "A PLAN FOR RENDERING SALTED MEAT MORE
NUTRITIOUS, THEREBY PREVENTING SCURVY;" "THE FIRst step

IN CHEMISTRY; A NEW METHOD OF TEACHING THE
Elements of THE SCIENCE," etc. etc.

"As the best sciences which the ancient world framed supplied the best elements of intellectual educa-
tion up to modern times, so the grand step by which, in modern times, science has sprung up into a
magnitude and majesty far superior to her ancient dimensions, should exercise its influence upon modern
education, and contribute its proper result to modern intellectual culture. . . . . By such study of one or
more departments of inductive knowledge, the mind may escape from the thraldom and illusion which
reigns in the world of mere words. . . . . The knowledge of which I speak must be a knowledge of THINGS,
and not merely of NAMES OF THINGS."-WHEWELL.

C LONDON

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL

1881

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY

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I take the liberty of Dedicating this Work

TO THE

CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS

OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

BECAUSE

I have many personal friends engaged in these industries,

AND

Also because I have attempted, in this book, to improve the teaching of the Sciences on which their

Industries are based.

ROBERT GALLOWAY.