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Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish, and the Nineteenth Century 'Water Controversy' (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)
 
 
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Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish, and the Nineteenth Century 'Water Controversy' (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945) [Hardcover]

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075463177X 978-0754631774 May 2004
The ancient Greeks believed water was an element, and thinkers continued to see it that way until the 18th century. Then, it was found to be a compound, constructed of hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Who would be credited with the discovery, however, was a dispute that went on for 70 years, long outl

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water controversy, reluctant catalyst, elementary heat, inflammable air, water correspondence, water question, founder myth, dephlogisticated air, chemical texts, great natural philosopher, attributional model, patent controversy, pneumatic chemistry, interpretative flexibility, chemical arguments, discovery accounts, chemical community, perpetual secretary, true discoverer, phlogiston theory, new chemistry, compound nature
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Watt Jr, James Watt, Royal Society, Muirhead Papers, British Association, Watt Papers, George Wilson, Henry Cavendish, Edinburgh Review, Gentlemen of Science, Chemical Revolution, Quarterly Review, David Brewster, Joseph Black, Lord Brougham, Arago's Eloge, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Henry Brougham, Philosophical Transactions, Brougham Papers, Macvey Napier, William Whewell, Francis Jeffrey, George Peacock, Cavendish Society
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