Frases de James Riddick Partington
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James Riddick Partington MBE foi um químico e historiador da química britânico.

✵ 30. Junho 1886 – 9. Outubro 1965

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James Riddick Partington: Frases em inglês

“Wenzel and Richter, the latter… of most pronounced mathematical temperament, laid the foundations of stoichiometry, or "the art of measuring the chemical elements."”

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J. R. Partington

Introduction
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)

“The extension of Black's method by the physicist Lavoisier led to the downfall of the purely qualitative theory of phlogiston, and gave to chemistry the true methods of investigation, and its first great quantitative law—the law of conservation of matter.”

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J. R. Partington, Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)

“The fundamental materials from which we construct our picture of the universe may appear in different shapes, but there is really very little discontinuity between what seem at first sight very different views.”

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Introduction
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)

“If the present volume will help towards the comprehension of the fundamental principles on which the science of thermodynamics rests, and also serve to bring home the importance of a knowledge of these principles in the suggestion and interpretation of experimental work, the purpose which has been kept in view during its preparation will have been amply fulfilled. In any case, it is hoped that neither the extreme view that thermodynamic principles alone suffice in the construction of a systematic physical or chemical science, nor the equally mistaken opinion that they are of little practical utility to the experimental worker, can fairly result from its study.”

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A Text-Book of Thermodynamics with Special Reference to Chemistry (1913)

“On the one hand, the student has been informed by some writers that the only certain way lies in the use of the entropy-function and the thermodynamic potentials; on the other hand, he is told with equal authority that the method used by the original investigators has been the consideration of cyclic processes, and that the former method is nothing but a mathematical (perhaps unnecessary) refinement of the results obtained by the latter. These extreme attitudes appear to me to be unfortunate, and more especially when one observes the physical clearness introduced by the use of cyclic processes, but at the same time remembers that most of the results obtained by separate investigators using cyclic processes had, with a great many more, previously been found by J. Willard Gibbs by means of a purely analytical method.”

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A Text-Book of Thermodynamics with Special Reference to Chemistry (1913)

“We perceive clearly that theories and hypotheses are not accepted or rejected outright; they have their periods of activity, and then lie dormant for a time, only to be revived in a new form later on.”

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Introduction
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)

“Dalton, the mathematical tutor, following up the lead of Newton, combined the whole of the results of quantitative measurement which had accumulated up to his time, in a comprehensive theory, based on the concept of the chemical atom.”

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Introduction
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)

“It is clear, however, that the distinguishing mark of the whole development of theoretical chemistry and physics is the elimination of the anthropomorphic elements, especially specific sense-impressions, from the concepts. This process is called by Prof. M. Planck the objectification of the physical system.”

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Introduction Note: Max Planck, "Acht Vorlesungen iiber theoretische Physik" (1910)
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)