Chemistry and the Public Usefulness of Science
Chemical "Affinities"
In 1718 Étienne-François Geoffroy (1672-1731) presented in Paris a "table of affinities" that, by adapting Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) laws of attraction ...
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From Philosophy to Pharmacy
Plato supposed that matter was formed of particles shaped like regular solids. This hypothesis seemed confirmed, in the first half of the 17th century, ...
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Mastering Fire
The greatest progress in modern chemistry was attained by perfecting instrumentation able to control fire, the chief element used by chemists to analyze ...
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Quantitative Chemistry
In the second half of the 18th century chemists felt the need for greater precision in their experimentation. New, sophisticated scales with hitherto unimaginably ...
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Understanding Air
The tendency to quantify chemical phenomena reached its apex near the end of the 18th century, when it was discovered that atmospheric air was not a simple ...