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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, [2000], ©2000.

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xxi, 415 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles; 24 cm.

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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology

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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.

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Contents

Introduction: A Practical Science / Trevor H. Levere and Frederic L. Holmes -- I. The Practice of Alchemy. 1. The Archaeology of Chemistry / Robert G. W. Anderson. 2. Alchemy, Assaying, and Experiment / William R. Newman. 3. Apparatus and Reproducibility in Alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe -- II. From Hales to the Chemical Revolution. 4. "Slippery Substances": Some Practical and Conceptual Problems in the Understanding of Gases in the Pre-Lavoisier Era / Maurice Crosland. 5. Measuring Gases and Measuring Goodness / Trevor H. Levere. 6. The Evolution of Lavoisier's Chemical Apparatus / Frederic L. Holmes. 7. "The Chemist's Balance for Fluids": Hydrometers and Their Multiple Identities, 1770-1810 / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. 8. "Fit Instruments": Thermometers in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry / Jan Golinski. 9. Platinum and Ground Glass: Some Innovations in Chemical Apparatus by Guyton de Morveau and Others / William A. Smeaton --
III. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. 10. Multiple Combining Proportions: The Experimental Evidence / Melvyn C. Usselman. 11. Organic Analysis in Comparative Perspective: Liebig, Dumas, and Berzelius, 1811-1837 / Alan J. Rocke. 12. Chemical Techniques in a Preelectronic Age: The Remarkable Apparatus of Edward Frankland / Colin A. Russell. 13. Bridging Chemistry and Physics in the Experimental Study of Gunpowder / Seymour H. Mauskopf. 14. Laboratory Practice and the Physical Chemistry of Michael Polanyi / Mary Jo Nye.

ISBN

0262082829 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99021064

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Columbia University Libraries