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Youmans was born on June 3, 1821 in Coeymans, New York, the eldest son of Vincent and Catherine (Scofield) Youmans. His father was a mechanic and farmer, and his mother had been a teacher.
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Excerpt from A Class-Book of Chemistry: In Which the Principles of the Science Are Familiarly Explained and Applied to the Arts, Agriculture, Physiology, Dietetics, Ventilation, and the Most Important Phenomena of Nature; Designed for the Use of Academies and Schools, and for Popular Reading Tiie present volume is designed as a popular introduction to the study of Chemistry. It aims to present the subject in such a manner as to win the attention and engage the interest of beginners, and is especially adapted to the wants of that large class, both in and out of school, who would like to know something of this interesting sci ence, but have neither leisure nor Opportunity to pursue it in a de tailed and experimental way. As such will necessarily be more concerned to know what facts, principles, and results have been ar rived at by chemical research, than to trace the routes by whichthsy were reached, or the Operations by which they may be confirmed. The following pages will be found chiefly occupied with the explana tion of established principles, and their application to the most prac ticalandfamiliaratfairsofcommonlife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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Youmans was born on June 3, 1821 in Coeymans, New York, the eldest son of Vincent and Catherine (Scofield) Youmans. His father was a mechanic and farmer, and his mother had been a teacher.
Sent to school at three years of age, Edward soon became an eager reader. Beyond the elementary school he was practically self-educated.
Youmans' first occupation, teaching a country school, and a projected college course had to be given up when ophthalmia, aggravated by the treatment of an ignorant quack, almost destroyed his sight. Going to New York City for medical aid, he came in contact with Horace Greeley, Walt Whitman, and more particularly with William Henry Appleton, the publisher. More than half-blind, he was aided by his sister, Eliza Ann Youmans (b. 1826), who read to him and carried on chemical experiments for him. He constructed a frame which enabled him to write unaided. Undertaking to write a history of scientific discovery and then to compile a practical arithmetic, he was anticipated in both efforts. A third project was completed, and in 1851 he published A Class-Book of Chemistry, which became a standard text and remained in use long enough to require two revisions from his pen. Medical treatment and the improvement of his general health had now so far restored his eyes that he was able to read and to go about alone. At thirty his most active period was just beginning. He was for the next two decades a popular lecturer on science (1851-1868). Making use of the lyceum system then in its heyday, Youmans annually traversed the midwest states, speaking on chemistry and its applications, on ancient philosophy and modern science, on evolution, and on other scientific and educational subjects. He was attracted in 1856 by Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology and formed a connection with the author. As a result he became a disciple of Spencer and the chief promoter in the United States of his publications. Youmans continued writing on his own account and issued a Chemical Atlas: or the Chemistry of Familiar Objects (1854), and a Hand-Book of Household Science (1857), a text in domestic science. He also edited a collection of papers on scientific education under the title, The Culture Demanded by Modern Life (1867), and a series of papers by well-known scientists which he called Correlation and Conservation of Forces (1864). The International Scientific Series, initiated by Youmans in 1871, provided a vehicle for publishing scientific books which were at once authoritative and of popular interest. Among the distinguished scientists who contributed to the series were Darwin, Liebig, Helmholtz, and Huxley. The first volume to be issued was Tyndall's Forms of Water (1872). In the absence of international copyright, arrangements were made to publish the volumes simultaneously in Europe and America. The series was well received, and more than fifty volumes were issued during Youman's lifetime. In the same period he secured the establishment (1872) of the Popular Science Monthly (later the Scientific Monthly). In the conduct of this journal he was greatly aided by his brother, William Jay Youmans. To the International Scientific Series and the Monthly he devoted the last fifteen years of his life, in his editorials in the Monthly stressing especially the need for scientific education. It was in persuading original investigators to write for the educated non-scientific public, and in providing texts and reference books for teaching science in schools that this "apostle of evolution" and national teacher of science did his best work. Youmans died on January 18, 1887.
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Youmans was married in 1861 to Catherine E. (Newton) Lee, the widow of William Little Lee. His wife's literary abilities were of great service to his editorial and promotional work. They had no children.