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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯:自助论·摘录 117
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导
The attention of Dr. Priestley, the discoverer of so many gases, was accidentally drawn to the subject of chemistry through his living in the neighbourhood of a brewery. When visiting the place one day, he noted the peculiar appearances attending the extinction of lighted chips in the gas floating over the fermented liquor. He was forty years old at the time, and knew nothing of chemistry. He consulted books to ascertain the cause, but they told him little, for as yet nothing was known on the subject. Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance. The curious results of his first experiments led to others, which in his hands shortly became the science of pneumatic chemistry. About the same time, Scheele was obscurely working in the same direction in a remote Swedish village; and he discovered several new gases, with no more effective apparatus at his command than a few apothecaries’ phials and pigs’ bladders.
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定位:Excerpt 117 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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普里斯特利博士发现多种气体,他关注化学纯属偶然:他住在酿酒厂附近,一天参观时注意到发酵液体上方的气体使燃烧的木片熄灭,现象奇特。当时他四十岁,对化学一无所知。他查书找原因,但书上几乎没答案,因为当时这方面知识还是空白。于是他开始用自制的简陋装置做实验,第一批实验结果引出更多实验,很快在他手中发展成气体化学。同时,舍勒在瑞典偏远村庄也默默朝同一方向努力,用几个药瓶和猪膀胱就发现了好几种新气体。核心是:年龄和知识储备不是障碍,好奇心和动手实验才是关键。做法是:从身边奇怪现象入手,查资料、做实验,不怕起点低。
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同出《自助》,普里斯特利和舍勒是18世纪气体化学先驱,例子强调好奇与实验。
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