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Title

A source book in chemistry, 1400-1900 [by] Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein.

Author

Leicester, Henry Marshall, 1906-

Publication

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1952.

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Details

Additional Authors

Klickstein, Herbert S.

Description

xvi, 554 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

A collection of important writings in the history of chemistry from 1400-1900, each with an introduction by the editors.

Series Statement

Source books in the history of the sciences

Uniform Title

Source books in the history of the sciences

Subject

• Chemistry
• Chemistry
• chemistry

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.
• "Bibliography of biographies": p. 533-545.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Opinion of alchemy, from 'De la pirotechnia' ; On the nature of saltpeter, from 'De la pirotechnia' / Vannuccio Biringuccio (1480-1539) -- 3. Classification of minerals, from 'De natura fossilium' ; Manufacture of vitriol, from 'De re metallica' / Georg Agricola (1494-1555) -- 4. An example of the style of Paracelsus ; Evaluation of chemists and physicians ; Elements and principles ; Concerning salt and substances comprehended under salt / Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) (1493-1541) -- 5. Definition of alchemy and its subdivisions / Andreas Libavius (1540-1616) -- 6. Air and water as elements ; Experiments on the origin of plants from water ; The first use of the term "gas" / Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1577-1644) -- 7. Preparation of antimony oxide ; Antimony chloride and oxychloride ; Potassium pyroantimonate ; Antimony oxysulfide ; Antimony metal / Basil Valentine (Johann Thölde) (fl. 1604) -- 8. Preparation, properties, and use of sal mirabilis ; Reduction of charcoal by sal mirabilis / Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-1670) -- 9. Arguments against the three principles and the four elements ; Definition of an element ; Experiments on combustion / Robert Boyle (1627-1691) -- 10. Interpretation of combustion / Robert Hooke (1635-1703) -- 11. Explanation of acids and bases / Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715) -- 12. Definition of the three principles, terra lapidis, terra pinguis, and terra fluida / Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) -- 13. Discussion of phlogiston ; The phlogiston theory ; Definition of chemistry ; The composition of substances / Georg Ernst Stahl (1600-1734) -- 14. Opinion of alchemy / Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) -- 15. Table of affinities / Étienne-François Geoffroy (1672-1731) -- 16. Nature of salts / Gullaume-François Rouelle (1703-1770) -- 17. Experiments on magnesia alba / Joseph Black (1728-1799) -- 18. On elective attractions / Torbern Bergman (1735-1784) -- 19. Properties of air and discovery of oxygen ; Discovery of chlorine / Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) -- 20. Of dephlogisticated air and of the constitution of the atmosphere ; The role of green plants in revivifying air / Joseph Priestly (1733-1804) -- 21. Production of dephlogisticated air by plants in sunlight / Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) -- 22. Experiments on inflammable air ; Experiments on the formation of water / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) -- 23. On the calcination of tin in closed vessels ; On the nature of the principle which combines with metals during their calcination ; On combustion in general ; Reflexions on phlogiston ; Experiments on the respiration of animals ; Early suggestion of the "law of conservation of mass" / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) -- 24. Principles of chemical nomenclature / Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737-1816) -- 25. Laws of chemical affinity / Claude Louis Berthollet (1748-1822) -- 26. The constancy of composition of compounds / Joseph Louis Proust (1754-1826) -- 27. Principles of stoichiometry / Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762-1807) -- 28. Theory of absorption of gases by water and table of atomic weights ; Explanation of Dalton's atomic theory by Thomas Thomson ; Dalton's account of the atomic theory / John Dalton (1766-1844) -- 29. Demonstration of the law of multiple proportions ; Table of chemical equivalents / William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) -- 30. Hypothesis of atoms and molecules / Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro (1776-1856) -- 31. The Voltaic pile / Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) -- 32. Preparation of alkali metals ; The elementary nature of chlorine / Humphry Davy (1778-1819) -- 33. Electrochemical theory ; Chemical symbols and formulas ; Explanation of isomerism ; Explanation of catalytic phenomena / Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) -- 34. An attempt to group elementary substances according to their analogies / Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780-1849) -- 35. Law of the constancy of product of atomic weight and specific heat / Pierre Louis Dulong (1785-1838) -- 36. Hydrogen as the unit of atomic weight / William Prout (1785-1850) -- 37. The proportionality of electrochemical change and quantity of electricity ; On fluid chlorine / Michael Faraday (1791-1867) -- 38. The composition of fats / Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) -- 39. The law of combining volumes ; Experiments on prussic acid and cyanogen / Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) -- 40. The law of isomorphism / Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863).
• 41. The artificial production of urea ; On the radical of benzoic acid / Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882) -- 42. The constitution of organic acids / Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) -- 43. Memoir on esters ; Theory of substitution ; The radical theory ; The constitution of acetic and chloroacetic acids / Jean Baptiste André Dumas (1800-1884) -- 44. The law of constancy of heat / Germain Henri Hess (1802-1850) -- 45. Of the modifications of phosphoric acid ; The law of diffusion of gases ; Liquid diffusion applied to analysis ; Colloidal condition of matter / Thomas Graham (1805-1869) -- 46. The theory of derived nuclei / Auguste Laurent (1808-1853) -- 47. The type theory / Charles Gerhardt (1816-1856) -- 48. Photochemical researches / Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) -- 49. Relation between physical properties and chemical constitution / Hermann Kopp (1817-1892) -- 50. The ammonia type / Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) -- 51. The molecular constitution of nitrogenous organic bases / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) -- 52. The nature of organic radicals ; The rational composition of organic compounds ; The classification of organic chemical bodies / Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) -- 53. On the molecular asymmetry of natural organic products / Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) -- 54. Theory of aetherification / Alexander William Williamson (1824-1904) -- 55. On the isolation of organic radicals ; On a new series of organic bodies containing metals / Edward Frankland (1825-1899) -- 56. Dissociation or spontaneous decomposition of a body under the influence of heat / Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818-1881) -- 57. The law by which the action of acid on cane sugar occurs / Ludwig Ferdinand Wilhelmy (1812-1864) -- 58. Ionic migration and transport numbers ; Chemical nature of electrolytes / Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824-1914) -- 59. Sketch of a course of chemical philosophy / Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826-1910) -- 60. The constitution and metamorphoses of chemical compounds and the chemical nature of carbon ; Studies on aromatic compounds / Friedrich August Kekulé (1829-1896) -- 61. The isomerism of so-called aromatic compounds with six atoms of carbon / Wilhelm Körner (1839-1925) -- 62. Organic chemistry founded on synthesis ; Thermochemical studies / Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) -- 63. The position of substituting hydrogen in organic compounds / Vladimir Vasil'evich Markovkikov (1838-1904) -- 64. The nature of the chemical elements as a function of their atomic weights / Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) -- 65. The relation between the properties and atomic weights of the elements ; A natural system of the elements and its use in predicting the properties of undiscovered elements / Dmitriĭ Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) -- 66. Structures in space and optical activity of organic compounds ; The role of osmotic pressure in the analogy between solutions and gases / Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911) -- 67. On the relations which exist between the atomic formulas of organic compounds and the rotatory powers of their solutions / Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847-1930) -- 68. The theory of steric hindrance / Victor Meyer (1848-1897) -- 69. The strain theory / Adolf Baeyer (1835-1917) -- 70. The law of mass action / Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836-1902) and Peter Waage (1833-1900) -- 71. General law of the freezing of solutions ; General law of the vapor pressure of solvents / François-Marie Raoult (1830-1901) -- 72. On coexistent phases of matter / Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) -- 73. A general statement of the laws of chemical equilibrium / Henri Louis Le Chatelier (1850-1936) -- 74. On the dissociation of substances dissolved in water / Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) -- 75. The dilution law ; The theory of catalysis / Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald (1853-1932) -- 76. On the process of solution of solid bodies ; The reciprocal effect of the solubility of salts / Hermann Walther Nernst (1864-1941) -- 77. The configuration of grape sugar and its isomers / Emil Fischer (1852-1919) -- 78. Alcoholic fermentation without yeast cells / Eduard Buchner (1860-1917) -- 79. The theory of unsaturated and aromatic compounds / Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele (1865-1918) -- 80. An instance of tervalent carbon: triphenyl methyl / Moses Gomberg (1866-1947) -- 81. The constitution of inorganic compounds / Alfred Werner (1866-1919) -- 82. Researches on radio-active substances / Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- 83. Bibliography of biographies.

LCCN

51012625

OCLC

• ocm01122790
• 1122790
• SCSB-225314

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library