The cradle of chemistry
Subtitle: the early years of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
By: edited by Robert G.W. Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, R. G. W. (Robert Geoffrey William), editor; Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781906566869
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: History; Medical education; Chemistry; Study and teaching (Higher); Chemie; Education; History, Modern 1601-; University of Edinburgh. Faculty of Medicine; University of Edinburgh; The University of Edinburgh
Other titles: Early years of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1.; title: Introduction  -- Robert G.W. Anderson -- 2.; title: Science in the Athens of the North: The Development of Science in Enlightenment Edinburgh  -- John Henry -- 3.; title: Leiden Chemistry in Edinburgh: Herman Boerhaave, James Crawford and Andrew Plummer  -- John C. Powers -- 4.; title: Plummer to Cullen: Novelty in William Cullen's Chemical Pedagogy  -- Georgette Taylor -- 5.; title: `The Most Perfect Liberty': Professors and Students in the Age of the Chemical Revolution  -- John R.R. Christie -- 6.; title: Useful Pictures: Joseph Black and the Graphic Culture of Experimentation  -- Matthew Daniel Eddy -- 7.; title: Materia Chemica: Excavation of the Early Chemistry Stores at Old College, University of Edinburgh  -- Tom Addyman -- 8.; title: Surviving Eighteenth-Century Chemical Apparatus in the National Museums of Scotland  -- A.D. Morrison-Low -- 9.; title: Joseph Blacks House in Nicolson Street: Its History and Ultimate Fate  -- Peter J.T. Morris -- 10.; title: Thomas Charles Hope and the Limiting Legacy of Joseph Black  -- Robert G.W. Anderson -- 11.; title: `A Golden Cage, but Will the Birds Sing?': William Gregory, Lyon Playfair and Alexander Crum Brown  -- Andrew J. Alexander -- 12.; title: Afterword -- Hasok Chang.