Discussing chemistry and steam : the minutes of a coffee house philosophical society, 1780-1787 / T.H. Levere & G. L'E. Turner ; with contributions from Jan Golinski & Larry Stewart
Introduction / T.H. Levere -- The Membership / G.L'E. Turner -- The Minutes of the Society, 1780-1787 -- Conversations on Chemistry: Talk about Phlogiston in the Coffee House Society, 1780-1787 / Jan Golinski -- Putting on Airs: Science, Medicine, and Polity in the Late Eighteenth Century / Larry Stewart
Summary
This volume transcribes and comments on the manuscript Minutes of the meetings in a London coffee house of a group of 18th century scientists, who discussed some of the key scientific issues of the day
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index