Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560. E-book. Formato PDF George Wilson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This book, small though it be, is the work of one of the ablest and most thorough modern students of Melanchthons life and works. Unhappily, the final touches and the careful revision which the Author was so competent to give are lacking. When the manuscript was under consideration, the accomplished Author died suddenly as he was engaged in his duties at the Bible House. This sudden departure, while apparently in good health and in the full discharge of his ordinary duties, came as a great shock to the many friends who knew and who loved Mr. Wilson. To these it may prove a mournful satisfaction to get this last treasure from his stores of learning.

The McKees of Virginia and Kentucky. E-book. Formato PDF George Wilson Mckee   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

IN the preparation of this sketch I have re ceived great assistance from Mr. J. A. R. Varner, Judge Win. Mclaughlin, Mr. Joseph A. \vaddell, Mr. D. F. Laird, and Captain John Preston Moore. Of Virginia; Dr. John Lapsley mckee, Miss Jeanie D. Mckee, Major Lewis W. Mckee, Mr. H. ('lay mckee, and Messrs. John and \villiam mckee Duncan, of Kentucky; Mrs. Elizabeth Lantier Dunn, Mr. David R. Mckee, and Mr. Geo. \v. Mckee, of Washington. D. And Mr. John Mackay, of New York City. I tender to each and all of them my grateful thanks for their kindness. As I have collected data from many sources, repetitions will be frequently noted. This, Avas unavoidable, under the circumstances, and it was believed that it would tend to the ultimate correction of dates and incidents. The tiger. Stamped on the cover, is a fac simile of an emblem painted on a Corean battle-?ag, which was sent to my mother bythe late Admiral John {odgers, U. S. Navy. As this was won by the blood Of a mckee in battle. I thought it. A, fitting device to establish relationship and keep the survivors of the family together.

The Life of the Honble, Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More Important Scientific Papers, and a Critical Inquiry Into the Claims of All the Alleged Discoverers of the Composition of Water. E-book. Formato PDF George Wilson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

When the Council of the Cavendish Society did me the honour to ask me to write the life of the great philosopher with whom the Society had associated itself by its name I willingly undertook the task. During the enforced leisure of a long illness I commenced in 1842 to collect materials for a projected work on the lives of the Chemists of Great Britain in which Cavendish should occupy a prominent place; and I had made some progress in my task when the Cavendish Society was founded. Although an original member of that association, I had no share in determining the selection of the name by which it is distinguished nor was Cavendish an object of greater interest to me than the other great philosophers of our country whose lives I proposed to write. When however, at the call of the Society, I laid aside the more general undertaking in which I was engaged, and turned my attention solely to the works and character of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, circumstances had occurred which gave him an importance in the eyes of the lettered public, such as no other chemist at the time possessed. He prosecuted zealously and successfully so many branches of knowledge, that the students of nearly all the physical sciences may consider him as an illustrious brother; nor have I any wish to assert that Chemistry is entitled to claim him as peculiarly hers.