Essay Review: The Chemistry of History: The Development of Modern Chemistry: A History of Chemistry

See “An Elizabethan history of medical chemistry”, Debus A. G. , Annals of science, xviii (1962) 1–29.

E.g. Borrichius Olaus , De ortu, et progressu chemiae dissertatio (Hafniae, 1668).

The edition referred to is Boerhaave H. , Elementa chemiae, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1732).

For Cullen see An eighteenth century lectureship in chemistry, ed. Kent A. (Glasgow, 1950). pp. 15 et seq. For Black see “On some MS copies of Black's chemical lectures”, McKie D. , Annals of science, xv (1959) 65–73.

Encyclopédie méthodique, Chimie , iii (Paris, An.4 [1797]) 740–2.

Reprinted Hildesheim, 1965.

Hoefer F. , Histoire de la chimie, 2 vols. (Paris, 1842–3), and Kopp H. , Geschichte der Chemie, 4 vols. (Braunschweig, 1843–7, reprinted Hildesheim, 1966).

Wurtz A. , A history of chemical theory, trans. Watts H. (London, 1869) 1.

Lovejoy A. O. , The great chain of being (Cambridge, Mass., 1936).

Quoted by Carr E. H. , What is history? (London, 1962) 1.

See Butterfield H. , The Whig interpretation of history (London, 1931).

Collingwood R. G. , The idea of history (Oxford, 1946) 282 et seq.

Carr E. H. , op. cit., p. 18.

Collingwood R. G. , op. cit., p. 203.

von Meyer E. , A history of chemistry, trans. M'Gowan G. (London, 1891).

Among other studies see e.g. Meyerson E. , Identity and reality, trans. Loewenberg K. (London, 1930) and Metzger H. , Newton, Stahl, Boerhaave et la Doctrine chimique (Paris, 1930).

See e.g. 69–72, 105, 128–34, etc. of Kuhn T. S. , The structure of scientific revolutions (Chicago, 1962).

This phrase occurs as the heading of chapter 11 in Butterfield H. , The origins of modern science (2nd edition, London, 1957).

Though among encouraging signs are the appearance of Crosland's M. P. Historical studies in the language of chemistry (London, 1962) and Palmer's W. G. A history of the concept valency to 1930 (Cambridge, 1965). The latter appears to be the first book ever to be devoted solely to the history of a chemical idea.

Guerlac H. , “Some historical assumptions of the history of science”, in Scientific change, ed. Crombie A. C. (London, 1963) 797–812 and 875–6.

Clow A. Clow N. , The Chemical Revolution (London, 1952).

For instance Schofield's R. E. The Lunar Society of Birmingham (Oxford, 1963) and Debus' A. G. recent study of The English Paracelsians (London, 1965).