BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
Number 5, Winter 1989
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| TITLE | Author | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction. A brief overview of what is to follow and why | Jane A. Miller | 3 |
| The Legacy of Lavoisier. A perspective on how Lavoisier's work is still intertwinned within the fabric of modern chemistry |
William A. Smeaton | 4 |
| Lavoisier's Politics. More than just a chemist, Lavoisier considered himself as part of the enlightened bourgeoisie |
Arthur L. Donovan | 10 |
| Scientific Revolutionaries Caught in Political Revoltion: Priestley and Lavoisier. Some ironic parallels and paradoxes in the scientific and political fates of two famous 18th century chemists |
J. Edmund White |
15 |
| Lavoisier and the Conservation of Weight Principle. What Lavoisier did and did not say on this important subject |
Robert Siegfried | 18 |
| Lavoisier the Experimentalist. Lavoisier was not only a theorist but a consummate designer of experiments and apparatus |
Frederic L. Holmes | 24 |
| Instruments of the Revolution: Lavoisier's Apparatus. Much of it is still to be seen, if one only knows where to look |
A. Truman Schwartz | 31 |
| Books of the Chemical Revolution. Part III of this series describes the manual and manifesto of the revolution, Lavoisier's Traite Elementaire de Chimie of 1789 |
Ben B. Chastain | 34 |
| The Ingenious, Lively and Celebrated Mrs. Fulhame and the Dyer's Hand. Vindicating the rights of women and independent chemical thought at the same time |
Derek A. Davenport and Kathleen M. Ireland | 37 |
| Thomas Duche Mitchell and the Chemistry of Principles. Tying up the loose ends of the Chemical Revolution |
William B. Jensen | 42 |
| A Biographical Checklist. | 48 | |
| A Revolutionary Timetable. | 49 |