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Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry
- Title
- Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry / edited by Frederic L. Holmes and Trevor H. Levere.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
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- Description
- xxi, 415 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-400) and index.
- Contents
- Archaeology of chemistry / Robert G.W. Anderson -- Alchemy, assaying, and experiment / William R. Newman -- Apparatus and reproducibility in alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe -- "Slippery substances" : some practical and conceptual problems in the understanding of gases in the pre-Lavoisier era / Maurice Crosland -- Measuring gases and measuring goodness / Trevor H. Levere -- Evolution of Lavoisier's chemical apparatus / Frederic L. Holmes -- "Chemist's balance for fluids" : hydrometers and their multiple identities, 1770-1810 / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- "Fit instruments" : thermometers in eighteenth-century chemistry / Jan Golinski -- Platinum and ground glass : some innovations in chemical apparatus by Guyton de Morveau and others / William A. Smeaton -- Multiple combining proportions : the experimental evidence / Melvyn C. Usselman -- Organic analysis in comparative perspective : Liebig, Dumas, and Berzelius, 1811-1837 / Alan J. Rocke -- Chemical techniques in a preelectronic age : the remarkable apparatus of Edward Frankland / Colin A. Russell -- Bridging chemistry and physics in the experimental study of gunpowder / Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Laboratory practice and the physical chemistry of Michael Polanyi / Mary Jo Nye.
- Call Number
- JSE 01-1610
- ISBN
- 0262082829 (hc. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99021064
- OCLC
- 40964811
- Title
- Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry / edited by Frederic L. Holmes and Trevor H. Levere.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
- Series
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-400) and index.
- Added Author
- Holmes, Frederic Lawrence.Levere, Trevor Harvey.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 01-1610