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xvi, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. |
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Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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| Note |
Reprint of the 1921 ed. |
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"Principal authorities": p. xi-xii. |
| Contents |
Group I: The Father of Chemistry / Robert Boyle -- I. Robert Boyle, 1627-1691 -- Group II: The Phlogistians -- II. Black, 1728-1799 -- III. Priestley, 1733-1804 -- IV. Cavendish, 1731-1810 -- V. Scheele, 1742-1786 -- Group III. The Antiphlogistic Revolution -- VI. Lavoisier, 1743-1794 -- Group IV: Electricity in the Service of Chemistry -- VII. Davy, 1778-1829 -- Group V: Laws of Combination and the Atomic Theory -- VIII. Dalton, 1766-1844 -- IX. Gay-Lussac, 1778-1850 -- X. Proust, 1755-1826 -- XI. Berzelius, 1779-1848 -- Group VI: Electro-Chemistry -- XII. Faraday, 1791-1867 -- Group VII: Molecule and Atom Defined -- XIII. Avogadro, 1776-1856 -- XIV. Cannizzaro, 1826-1910 -- Group VIII: Early Attempts at Classification -- XV. Liebig, 1803-1873 -- XVI. Dumas, 1800-1884 -- Group IX: Theories of Chemical Action and Constitution of Molecules -- XVII. Frankland, 1826-1899 -- XVIII. Williamson, 1824-1904 -- Group X: Glassification and Nature of Elements -- XIX. Mendeleeff, 1834-1907 -- XX. Crookes, 1832-1919 -- XXI. Ramsay, 1852-1916 |
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Chemists.
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Chemists. |
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Chemistry -- History.
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Chemistry. |
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History. |
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