TY - CHAP DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - Frontispiece: Portrait of Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov T2 - Intermediate Text Book of Chemistry ID - c8t3tnn AU - Smith, Alexander PB - The Century Company CY - New York, New York DA - 1787/// YR - 1787 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/c8t3tnn AB - Frontispiece portrait of Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), after the painting by G. C. Prenner. Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer who discovered the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. Frontispiece portrait is from the Intermediate Text Book of Chemistry by Alexander Smith. The preface of this work describes how this chemistry textbook contains an intermediate level of instruction, being more advanced than elementary chemistry but not as comprehensive as college chemistry. The modified periodic table of elements found within this work differs from Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev's (1834-1907) version as explained in the text. Only the pages pertaining to the modified periodic table of elements and a selection of plates have been digitized from this work. KW - Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, 1711-1765 KW - Portraits KW - Scientists LA - English ER -