The Chemical revolution
Subtitle: essays in reinterpretation
By: edited by Arthur Donovan.
Contributors: Donovan, Arthur L.; History of Science Society.
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser., v. 4; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 4.
Publisher: History of Science Society
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Chemistry -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Stahl to Dalton : the long revolution. Lavoisier and the fulfillment of the Stahlian revolution / J.B. Gough. The Chemical revolution in the history of chemistry / Robert Siegfried; title: The core of the revolution : research problems and conceptual innovations. Research traditions, Lavoisier and the chemical revolution / C.E. Perrin. Lavoisier's conceptual passage / Frederic L. Holmes. Gunpowder and the chemical revolution / Seymour H. Mauskopf; title: National communities and the reception of the revolution. The new chemistry in the Netherlands / H.A.M. Snelders. The new chemistry in Sweden : the debate that wasn't / Anders Lundgren; title: The new chemistry in Spain / Ramón Gago; title: Contextual factors and the explanation of scientific change. Continuity and discontinuity in the chemical revolution / John G. McEvoy; title: Lavoisier and the origins of modern chemistry / Arthur Donovan.