SIR A. TILDEN, F.R.S.
THE ELEMENTS
Speculations as to their Nature and Origin
Diagrams, &c.
Points to the conclusion that the elements resulted from a change in some primal essence, and discusses “whether all may not be suffering a slow waste, which, in the long run, must lead back to the primal chaos.”
SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY, F.R.S.
ELEMENTS AND ELECTRONS
Diagrams
The electron—“the atom of electricity”—is shown to be separable from matter, and to be capable under certain circumstances of independent existence. The book shows that the electron must be regarded as a kind of “element” itself, with much stronger claims to “elementary” or undecomposable characters than the bodies hitherto ranked as elements.
Footnotes:
[1] Chemical Phenomena in Life, pp. 62-3, by Dr. Frederick Czapek (Harper’s Library of Living Thought). The reader is strongly recommended to study this work in the present connection.
[2] Wonders of Life, by Ernst Haeckel, Professor at Jena University, p. 130.
[3] Wonders of Life, pp. 127-8.
[4] Chemical Phenomena in Life, p. 58.