Culture of the Vine and Wine Making, Tr. by L. Marie (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...by them consist more particularly in the analysis, in the measure and intelligence of the constant elements and phenomenons of vinification, than in the discovery of facts, of rules and processes arising to modify, to replace, and especially to perfect in every respect the wines of first quality. It is thus that the discovery of sonorous vibrations, the relations of their number with the notes of the gamut, and the ciphered laws of their accords in virtue of those numbers were precious conquests for sciences and for the arts, but long before that discovery the ear had guessed the relations and the laws of sounds; the rules of melody and harmony were established, and even now inspiration and musical genius are still the unique source from whence spring master-pieces. Science might have helped and perfected the creations of composers, but it is completely foreign to inspiration and to the special qualities of their productions. The composer of the wine is the vine; its spirit belongs to it and not to chemistry. It is not by a metrical appreciation that the relations existing between the vegetable and animal kingdoms should be judged; chemistry, that magnificent science, which I love, and have studied and practised with passion, has not yet found the key of those relations. Experience, sometimes baneful to humanity, has ascertained that in proportion as vegetable or animal products were reduced into a formula, and analysed with precision at the laboratories, they became more and more unfit for animal alimentation; we are now spared the chemical gelatin. Heaven will that chemical wine be spared to humanity Chemistry tells us: All sugars from fruits are chemically represented by C12 H12 O'2. Thus, grapes of all kinds, apples, pears, plums, raspberries, figs, me...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...by them consist more particularly in the analysis, in the measure and intelligence of the constant elements and phenomenons of vinification, than in the discovery of facts, of rules and processes arising to modify, to replace, and especially to perfect in every respect the wines of first quality. It is thus that the discovery of sonorous vibrations, the relations of their number with the notes of the gamut, and the ciphered laws of their accords in virtue of those numbers were precious conquests for sciences and for the arts, but long before that discovery the ear had guessed the relations and the laws of sounds; the rules of melody and harmony were established, and even now inspiration and musical genius are still the unique source from whence spring master-pieces. Science might have helped and perfected the creations of composers, but it is completely foreign to inspiration and to the special qualities of their productions. The composer of the wine is the vine; its spirit belongs to it and not to chemistry. It is not by a metrical appreciation that the relations existing between the vegetable and animal kingdoms should be judged; chemistry, that magnificent science, which I love, and have studied and practised with passion, has not yet found the key of those relations. Experience, sometimes baneful to humanity, has ascertained that in proportion as vegetable or animal products were reduced into a formula, and analysed with precision at the laboratories, they became more and more unfit for animal alimentation; we are now spared the chemical gelatin. Heaven will that chemical wine be spared to humanity Chemistry tells us: All sugars from fruits are chemically represented by C12 H12 O'2. Thus, grapes of all kinds, apples, pears, plums, raspberries, figs, me...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

Release date

March 2012

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First published

March 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

66

ISBN-13

978-1-130-19189-9

Barcode

9781130191899

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1-130-19189-3



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