03461cam a22005414a 4500 muse78564 MdBmJHUP 20210127151426.0 m o d cr||||||||nn|n 100809t20191961nyu o 00 0 eng d 9781501746659 1501746650 9781501746642 1501746642 (OCoLC)1125111657 MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP QD22.L4 G83 1961 925.4 Guerlac, Henry. Lavoisier-the Crucial Year The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772 / By Henry Guerlac. 1 online resource (1 online resource xix, 240 pages) : illustrations, portraits The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Background of the Problem -- The Introduction of Pneumatic Chemistry into France -- The Origin of Lavoisier's Experiments, Some Theories Examined and Some New Evidence -- The Mysterious Calcination of Metals -- A Striking Anticipation of Lavoisier's Theory -- Lavoisier, Phosphorus, and the Role of Mitouard -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index Open Access Unrestricted online access star The author explores the origins of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution as it centers on Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's earliest work on combustion. He shows that the main lines of Lavoisier's theory - including his theory of a heat-fluid, caloric - were elaborated well before his discovery of the role played by oxygen. Contrary to the opinion prevailing at that time, Lavoisier suspected, and demonstrated by experiment, that common air, or some portion of it, combines with substances when they are burned. Professor Guerlac examines critically the theories of other historians of science concerning these first experiments, and tries to unravel the influences which French, German, and British chemists may have had on Lavoisier. He has made use of newly discovered material on this phase of Lavoisier's career, and includes an appendix in which the essential documents are printed together for the first time. Description based on print version record. Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent. swd Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. fast (OCoLC)fst00013602 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. Verbrennung. swd Experiment. swd Chemie. swd Chemistry History. Electronic books. lcgft Electronic books. local Project Muse. Print version: Lavoisier--the crucial year. Ithaca N.Y., Cornell University Press [1961] (DLC) 61014953 (OCoLC)538044 Project Muse. distributor Book collections on Project MUSE. Full text available: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68510/ 25741 25741 0 0 lcc 0 0 DL DL OA 2021-01-27 0 QD22.L4 G83 1961 2021-01-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68510/ 2021-01-27 EBOOK