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Title Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry / edited by Frederic L. Holmes and Trevor H. Levere
Published Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999

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