Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year : : Or, The Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry /

Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year : : Or, The Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry / / Frederic Lawrence Holmes.

Through his development of quantitative experimental methods, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) implemented a principle that many regard as the cornerstone of modern science: in every operation there is an equal quantity of material before and after the operation. The origin of Lavoisier...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Holmes, Frederic Lawrence,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1997
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 374
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Physical Description:1 online resource (194 p.) :; 10 halftones 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Sources of Lavoisier's Quantitative Method in Chemistry
  • CHAPTER TWO. Consequences of the Crucial Year
  • CHAPTER THREE. Vision and Reality
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Public Arena
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Reflections
  • CHAPTER SIX. In the Shadow of Black
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Caution and Consolidation
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Long Summer Campaign
  • CHAPTER NINE. The End of the Beginning
  • CHAPTER TEN. Mopping-Up Operations
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conclusion
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Before and After 1773: Lavoisier Studies
  • APPENDIX. Names, Substances, and Apparatus in Eighteenth- Century Chemistry
  • Notes
  • Index

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