Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 415 pages) : illustrations |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Chemical apparatus -- History
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Chemistry -- Experiments -- History
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- General.
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Chemical apparatus
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Chemistry -- Experiments
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Instrumenten.
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Chemie.
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Experimenten.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
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Levere, Trevor Harvey
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ISBN |
9780262275590 |
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0262275597 |
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0585351821 |
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9780585351827 |
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