Author: Bennett H. BroughPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528304085
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Excerpt from The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol. 58 IT is an age so full of light, that there is scarce a country or corner of Europe whose beams are not crossed and interchanged with others, but there is none under heaven abounding with more variety of learning, where the sciences may be more fitly wooed or more surely won, than in France. These lines, written by Laurence Sterne in his incomparably clever Sentimental Journey, were printed in the year 1768, the year in which Lavoisier's genius gained him admission as Adjoint to the French Academy, while at the same time the metallurgist Jars became Membre titulaire. Sterne's is a glowing tribute, but we feel its justice and gladly adopt it as our own. About the Publisher 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.
