Excerpt from New Theory of Galvanism: The Electrothermology of Chemistry, Electricity and Heat Phases of the Same PrincipleTait of Edinburgh, for his valuable suggestion of the word '5 thermic, to express certain conditions of heat supposed by me to exist in chemicals. In addition to thermic, I have been forced to use, throughout this essay, several other new terms. I am aware that these new words may sound uncouth, but their absolute necessity, for the intelligible ex planation of my views, will, I h0pe, excuse their employment, and in a measure disarm stringent criticism. I may farther state, as an apology for bavin g published at all these ideas about heat, that no other better way of testing whether these ideas were true or false could be found.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.