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Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
by Mi Gyung Kim
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with references to "Chemical Revolution".
Key Phrases:
Louis Lemery, Chemical Revolution, Nicolas Lemery, Arsenal Group, Royal Society, Simon Boulduc, elite chemistry, principalist approach, humid calcination, nature des substances animales, corpuscular program, corpuscular reasoning
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Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish, and the Nineteenth Century 'Water Controversy' (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)
by David Philip Miller
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with references to "Chemical Revolution".
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... from telling the `story of water' in the 1780s in this way, this chapter also surveys the historiography of the Chemical Revolution, the part played in it by the discovery of the composition of water and seeks to contextualize the chemical investigations ... "
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Revolution in Science
by I. Bernard Cohen
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... major revolu- tions in science turn out to be revolutions on both counts: the Newton- ian, Darwinian, Einsteinian revolutions, the Chemical Revolution, and the recent revolutions in molecular biology and the earth sciences. ... "
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Science and the Enlightenment (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
by Thomas L. Hankins
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... In fact, the Chemical Revolution was more the creation of a new science than a change in an existing one. Before 1750, chemistry could not ... "
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Syndics of Cambridge University Library, Paris Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, Chemical Revolution, Joseph Black, Joseph Priestley, barometric light, electrical effluvium, rigorous curve, magnesia usta, magnesia alba, vaporous state
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