Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry / edited by Frederic L. Holmes and Trevor H. Levere.

Other author Holmes, Frederic Lawrence.
Other author Levere, Trevor Harvey.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxxi, 415 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Instruments & experimentation in the history of chemistry
SeriesDibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. ^A464634
Contents Archaeology of chemistry / Robert G.W. Anderson -- Alchemy, assaying, and experiment / William R. Newman -- Apparatus and reproducibility in alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe -- "Slippery substances" : some practical and conceptual problems in the understanding of gases in the pre-Lavoisier era / Maurice Crosland -- Measuring gases and measuring goodness / Trevor H. Levere -- Evolution of Lavoisier's chemical apparatus / Frederic L. Holmes -- "Chemist's balance for fluids" : hydrometers and their multiple identities, 1770-1810 / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- "Fit instruments" : thermometers in eighteenth-century chemistry / Jan Golinski -- Platinum and ground glass : some innovations in chemical apparatus by Guyton de Morveau and others / William A. Smeaton -- Multiple combining proportions : the experimental evidence / Melvyn C. Usselman -- Organic analysis in comparative perspective : Liebig, Dumas, and Berzelius, 1811-1837 / Alan J. Rocke -- Chemical techniques in a preelectronic age : the remarkable apparatus of Edward Frankland / Colin A. Russell -- Bridging chemistry and physics in the experimental study of gunpowder / Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Laboratory practice and the physical chemistry of Michael Polanyi / Mary Jo Nye.
Local noteLittle-341637--3051310488842
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 398-400) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 99021064
ISBN0262082829
ISBN9780262082822

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