John Joseph Griffin
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John Joseph Griffin (22 de janeiro de 1802 - 9 de junho de 1877) foi um químico e editor inglês.
- Leitor! Imagine um menino de escola que perdeu o tamanho das roupas. Imagine os reparos feitos nas vestimentas onde a moldura ampliada rompeu os estreitos limites de sua cobertura. Imagine os acréscimos feitos onde os membros salientes emergiram de maneira justa e distante além dos limites da vestimenta. Imagine o menino ainda crescendo, e as roupas, remendadas por inteiro, agora mais do que nunca precisando de remendos - tal é a química e tal sua nomenclatura.
- - Reader! Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending — such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.
- - John Joseph Griffin (1834) Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p. 189
- - Reader! Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending — such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.