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Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry
Written by author Frederic L. Holmes
Published by MIT Press, August 2000
From the days of the alchemists through the creation of the modern laboratory,chemistry has been defined by its instruments and experimental techniques. Historians, however, have tended to focus on the course of chemical theory rather than on the tools an
This volume moves chemical instruments and experiments into the foreground of historical concern, in line with the emphasis on practice that characterizes current work on other fields of science and engineering.

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Introduction: A Practical Science
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I The Practice of Alchemy 1
1 The Archaeology of Chemistry 5
2 Alchemy, Assaying, and Experiment 35
3 Apparatus and Reproducibility in Alchemy 55
II From Hales to the Chemical Revolution 75
4 "Slippery Substances": Some Practical and Conceptual Problems in the Understanding of Gases in the Pre-Lavoisier Era 79
5 Measuring Gases and Measuring Goodness 105
6 The Evolution of Lavoisier's Chemical Apparatus 137
7 "The Chemist's Balance for Fluids": Hydrometers and Their Multiple Identities, 1770-1810 153
8 "Fit Instruments": Thermometers in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry 185
9 Platinum and Ground Glass: Some Innovations in Chemical Apparatus by Guyton de Morveau and Others 211
III The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 239
10 Multiple Combining Proportions: The Experimental Evidence 243
11 Organic Analysis in Comparative Perspective: Liebig, Dumas, and Berzelius, 1811-1837 273
12 Chemical Techniques in a Preelectronic Age: The Remarkable Apparatus of Edward Frankland 311
13 Bridging Chemistry and Physics in the Experimental Study of Gunpowder 335
14 Laboratory Practice and the Physical Chemistry of Michael Polanyi 367
Index 401

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	Introduction: A Practical Science
	Contributors
I	The Practice of Alchemy	1
1	The Archaeology of Chemistry	5
2	Alchemy, Assaying, and Experiment	35
3	Apparatus and Reproducibility in Alchemy	55
II	From Hales to the Chemical Revolution	75
4	"Slippery Substances": Some Practical and Conceptual Problems in the Understanding of Gases in the Pre-Lavoisier Era	79
5	Measuring Gases and Measuring Goodness	105
6	The Evolution of Lavoisier's Chemical Apparatus	137
7	"The Chemist's Balance for Fluids": Hydrometers and Their Multiple Identities, 1770-1810	153
8	"Fit Instruments": Thermometers in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry	185
9	Platinum and Ground Glass: Some Innovations in Chemical Apparatus by Guyton de Morveau and Others	211
III	The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	239
10	Multiple Combining Proportions: The Experimental Evidence	243
11	Organic Analysis in Comparative Perspective: Liebig, Dumas, and Berzelius, 1811-1837	273
12	Chemical Techniques in a Preelectronic Age: The Remarkable Apparatus of Edward Frankland	311
13	Bridging Chemistry and Physics in the Experimental Study of Gunpowder	335
14	Laboratory Practice and the Physical Chemistry of Michael Polanyi	367
	Index	401