These men worked to make the obscure art of chemistry accessible to common people by greatly simplifying nomenclature and notation. The result was a huge influx of interest and talent into chemistry that has generated much of the technical advances we enjoy today. The introduction of the instruments on this site has had a similar effect on contemporary chemistry, advancing the field through instrumentation. This site requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin. If you don't have it, Click Here to download now.
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.