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When men began to use their hands and eyes as well as their reason in attempting to get at nature's secrets, doubts arose whether the explanations and hypotheses of the gown-men were not rather strained, and for the most part unsatisfactory.

Thomas Edward Thorpe

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Thomas Edward Thorpe

Thomas Edward Thorpe

Born: December 8, 1845
Died: February 23, 1925 (aged 79)
Bio: Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe CB, FRS, often called Edward Thorpe, was a British chemist.
Known for:
  1. A dictionary of applied chemistry (1890)
  2. Essays in historical chemistry (1894)
  3. History of chemistry (1909)

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