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VOL. XXVIII
No. 1 – March 1981

Artículos

Páginas

The Decline of Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique (1794-1805). By Janis Langins


1

The Artifact as Historical Document Part 2: The Palladium and Rhodium of W. H. Wollaston. By B. I. Kronberg, L. L. Coatsworth, and M. C. Usselman


20

The Paracelsians in Eighteenth-Century France: A Renaissance Tradition in the Age of the Enlightenment. By Allen G. Debus


36

Reviews of Books

 

Les Textes Alchimiques. By Robert Halleux

55

Histoire de la Chimie (1866-9). By Ferdinand Hoeffer (reprint)

55

Alchemy. A Bibliography of English-language Writings. By Alan Pritchard

56

The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. By Carolyn Merchant


57

"Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophie". Meric Cassaubon and the Royal Society. By Michael R. G. Spiller


59

Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France. By Brian P. Copenhaver


59

 

No. 2 – July 1981

Articles

 

Dr Thomas Beddoes at Oxford: Radical Politics in 1788-1793 and the Fate of the Regius Chair in Chemistry. By Trevor H. Levere


61

Experiments with Time: Progress and Problems in the Development of Chemical Kinetics. By M. Christine King


70

Styles of Language and Modes of Chemical Thought. By A. M. Duncan

83

Reviews of Books

 

Justus von Liebig "Hochwohlgeborner Freyherr". Die Briefe an Georg von Cotta. Edited by Andreas Kleinert


108

Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part IV. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention. By Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yü, Lu Gwei-Djen and Nathan Sivin



109

Alchemy: the Philosopher’s Stone. By Alison Coudert

110

Sol und Luna. Literar- und alchemiegeschichtliche Studien zu einem altdeutschen Bildgedicht. By Joachim Telle


111

L’Immaginazione Alchemica. By Arturo Schwarz

112

The Chemical Theatre. By Charles Nicholl

113

Paracelsus in der deutschen Romantik. By Kurt Goldammer

114

Het Gezelschap der Hollandsche Scheikundigen. By H. A. M. Snelders

115

Stephen Hales: Scientist and Philanthropist. By D. G. C. Allen and R. E. Schofield


116

Lexikon des Mittelalters. Vol. I. Edited by Liselotte Lutz et al

117

Science, Pseudo-Science and Society. Edited by P. Hanen, M. J. Osler and R. G. Weyant


118

Short Notices of Books

118

 

No. 3 – November 1981

Articles

 

A Conflict of Principles: The Discovery of Argon and the Debate over its Existence. By Richard F. Hirsh


121

The Letters of William Crookes to Charles Hanson Greville Williams 1861-2: The Detection and Isolation of Thallium. By Frank A. J. L. James


131

The Library of Gay-Lussac. By Maurice Crosland

158

The Origin and Dissemination of the Term "Ligand" in Chemistry. By William H. Brock, K. A. Jensen, C. K. Jørgensen and G. B. Kauffman


171

Wedgwood’s Ceramic Wares for Chemical Use. Production and Supply from 1779 to 1794. By J. A. Chaldecott


184

Lavoisier’s Views on Phlogiston and the Matter of Fire before about 1770. By Richard C. Jennings


206

Reviews of Books

 

Psychology and Alchemy. By C. G. Jung

210

Astrology. As illustrated in the Collections of the British Library and the British Museum. By T. S. Pattie


211

Thomas Willis’s Oxford Lectures. Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst

212

History of Chemical Engineering. Edited by William F. Furter

212

Science and Society in Restoration England. By Michael Hunter

213

Humphry Davy on Geology. Edited by Robert Siegfried and Robert H. Dott Jr.

214

Claude-Louis Berthollet. Revue de l’Essai de statique chimique. Edited by Michelle Sadoun-Goupil


216

The Burndy Library and the Dibner Library

216

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXIX
No. 1 – March 1982

Articles

Page

The Unpublished Alchemical Sonnets of Felice Feliciano: An Episode in Science and Humanism in 15th Century Italy. By Elizabeth B. Welles


1

Circulation, Transformation, Conservation of Matter and the Balancing of the Biological World in the 18th Century. By Mikuláš Teich


17

Lavoisier’s Table of Simple Substances: Its Origin and Interpretation. By Robert Siegfried


29

Experiments with Time. Progress and Problems in the Development of Chemical Kinetics. Part 2. By M. Christine King


49

Essay Review of Richard S. Westfall’s Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton. By B. J. T. Dobbs


62

Reviews of Books

 

Traité de la chymie. By Christophle Glaser (Reprint)

63

L’Abrégé des secrets chymiques. By Pierre-Jean Fabre (Reprint)

63

Science and the Sons of Genius. Studies on Humphry Davy. Edited by Sophie Forgan


64

Gay-Lussac. La carrière d’un chimiste français

64

The Early Development of Electron Lenses and Electron Microscopy. By Ernst Ruska


65

Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils. By Fred Gettings

66

Conceptions of Ether. Edited by G. N. Cantor and M. J. S. Hodge

67

 

No. 2 – July 1982

Articles

 

A Greek Alchemical Formula. By Paul Plass

69

Arabic-Islamic Alchemy: Three Intertwined Stages. By Sami K. Hamarneh

74

Chemistry in a Provincial Context. The Montpellier Société Royale des Sciences in the 18th Century. By Homer E. LeGrand


88

Some Early References to Revolutions in Chemistry. By Jerry B. Gough

106

Reviews of Books

 

Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists. By Robert G. Frank Jr.

110

University of Oxford. Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 3: Drug Jars. By C. R. Hill and R. E. A. Drey


111

Yakob Berzelius. By J. I. Soloviev, V. I. Kurinnoy and I. S. Dmitriev (in Russian)


111

Otkrytie Khimicheskikh Elementov. By S. V. Al’tschuler, A. N. Krivomazov, V. P. Meln’ikov, L. P. Petrov and D. N. Trifanov


112

Les alchimistes grecs. Tome I. By Robert Halleux

113

Willis’s Oxford Casebook (1650-52). Edited by Kenneth Dewhurst

114

The Letters of Erasmus Darwin. Edited by Desmond King-Hele

115

Poetry Realized in Nature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early 19th Century Science. By Trevor H. Levere


116

Jacob Berzelius. The Emergence of his Chemical System. By Evan M. Melhado

117

Dictionary of the History of Science. Edited by W. F. Bynum, E. J. Browne and R. Porter


118

Catalog of the Sidney M. Edelstein Collection of the History of Chemistry, Dyeing and Technology. Compiled by Moshe Ron


119

John Tyndall. Essays on a Natural Philosopher. Edited by W. H. Brock, N. D. McMillan and R. C. Mollan


120

Stereochemistry. By O. B. Ramsay. Inorganic Coordination Compounds. By G. B. Kauffman. Transmutation, Natural and Artificial. By T. J. Trenn


121

Short Notices of Books

123

The Partington Prize (1982)

124

The Dexter Prize (1982)

124

 

No. 3 – November 1982

Articles

 

Thomas Vaughan as an Interpreter of Agrippa von Nettesheim. By William Newman


125

A Reluctant Catalyst: Joseph Black and the Edinburgh Reception of Lavoisier’s Chemistry. By C. E. Perrin


141

Maria the Jewess – Founding Mother of Alchemy. By Raphael Patai

177

Newton’s "Clavis": New Evidence on its Dating and Significance. By B. J. T. Dobbs


198

Reviews of Books

 

Kreatur und Kosmos. Edited by Rosemarie Dilg-Frank

203

Alchemical Imagery in Bosch’s Garden of Delights. By Laurinda S. Dixon

203

The Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos as shown in his Unpublished Papers. By David Castillejo


205

Under the Influence. A History of Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Anaesthesia. By W. D. A. Smith


205

Reference Books for the History of Science: A Handlist. By S. A. Jayawardene

206

European Museums of the History of Chemistry

207

Index to Volume 29 (1982)

207

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXX
No. 1 – March 1983

Articles

Page

Subatomic Speculations and the Origin of Structure Theory. By Alan J. Rocke

1

Peter Shaw: Chemistry and Communication in Augustan England. By Jan V. Golinski


19

The Establishment of Spectro-Chemical Analysis as a Practical Method of Qualitative Analysis, 1854-1861. By Frank A. J. L. James


30

Reviews of Books

 

Von Paracelsus zu Goethe und Wilhelm von Humboldt. (Salzburger Beiträge zur Paracelsusforschunge, Folge 22)


54

Romantische Naturphilosophie und Arzneimittellehre 1800-1840. By Dieter Oldenburg


55

Gentlemen of Science. Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. By Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray


56

Quellengeschichtliches Lesebuch zur Chemie und Alchemie der Araber im Mittelalter. Edited by Karl Garbers and Jost Weyer


57

Science credenze occulte livelli di cultura. Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Firenze, 26-30 June 1980)


58

The Rise of Robert Millikan. Portrait of a Life in American Science. By Robert H. Kargon


59

From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry: The Making of a Biomedical Discipline. By Robert E. Kohler


60

Medizin und Pharmacie in der Kosmologie Leonhard Thurneissers zum Thurn (1531-1596). By Peter Morys


61

A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Edited by Trevor I. Williams

62

Short Notices of Books

63

 

No. 2 – July 1983

Articles

 

The Mystery of Stephen H. Emmens: Successful Alchemist or Ingenious Swindler? By George B. Kauffman


65

Lavoisier’s Memoirs on the Nature of Water and their Place in the Chemical Revolution. By J. B. Gough


89

Sir William B. O’Shaughnessy, Pioneer Chemical Educator in India. By Mel Gorman


107

Editorial Note

116

Reviews of Books

 

A Bio-bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences Since 1800. By Joseph S. Fruton


117

Die Geschichte der Radioaktivität. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Transurane. By Cornielius Keller


117

Pharmazie und der gemeine Mann. Hausarznei und Apotheke in deutschen Schriften der frühen Neuzeit. (Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek Nr. 36). Edited by Joachim Telle



118

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals. By Donald McDonald and Leslie B. Hunt


118

Short Notices of Books

119

 

No. 3 – November 1983

Articles

 

Theory or Practice? The Eighteenth Century Debate on the Scientific Status of Chemistry. By Christoph Meinel


121

Kekulé or Kekule? By John H. Wotiz and Susanna Rudofsky

133

The Study of Spark Spectra 1835-1859. By Frank A. J. L. James

137

The Dexter Award

162

Reviews of Books

 

Joachim Jungius Praelectiones Physicae. Historisch-kritische Edition. Edited by Christoph Meinel


163

The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795). By Karl Hufbauer


163

Paracelsus – Autor der Archidoxis Magica? By Wolfgang Schneider

164

Les débuts de l’imagerie alchimique (XIVe – XVe siècles). By Barbara Obrist

165

Joan Baptista Van Helmont. Reformer of Science and Medicine. By Walter Pagel


165

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 2. Balances and Weights. By Olivia Brown


166

From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the Making of Modern Science. (The Eddington Memorial Lectures, 1980.) By Charles Webster


167

Metropolis and Province. Science in British Culture 1780-1850. Edited by Ian Inkster and Jack Morrell


168

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXI
No. 1 – March 1984

Articles

Page

J. B. Van Mons’ Essai sur les principes de la chemie antiphlogistique: A Mystery Solved. By C. E. Perrin


1

Alchemy, "Locus" of Renewal for Writing in the Moyen de Parvenir of Beroalde de Verville (1610). By Ilana Zinguer


6

The Course of Chemical Change: The Life and Times of Augustus G. Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919). By M. Christine King


16

The Preparation and Uses of Artificial Mineral Waters (ca. 1680-1825). By Noel G. Coley


32

Notices

48

Reviews of Books

 

Theatrum Chemicum, praecipuos selectorum auctorum Tractatus de Chemiae et Lapidis Philosophici antiquitate, veritate, jure, praestantia, & operationibus. 6 vols. Argentorati: Sumptibus Heredum Eberhardi Zetzneri, 1659-1661. With separately bound Introduzione by Maurizio Barrancano




49

Electrons and Valence. Development of the Theory, 1900-1925. By Anthony N. Stranges


50

Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Pharmakognosie als selbständiges Hochschulfach an der Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität Ingolstadt-Landshut München. (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Band 17). By Iris Renner




51

Paracelsus. An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance. 2nd revised edition. By Walter Pagel


51

The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700. The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution. (BSHS Monograph 4.) By Michael Hunter


52

Liebigs Experimentalvorlesung: Vorlesungsbuch und Kekulés Mitschrift. Edited with a commentary by Otto Paul Krätz and Claus Priesner, with contributions by Otto Krätz, Annemarie Diem and Sigrid von Moisy



52

Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. By Elizabeth C. Patterson


53

Joseph Black 1728-1799. A Commemorative Symposium. Edited by A. D. C. Simpson


54

Short Notices of Books

54

 

No. 2 – July 1984

Articles

 

Richard Knight (1768-1844): A Forgotten Chemist and Apparatus Designer. By Leslie B. Hunt and Peta D. Buchanan


57

The Death of Charles Blachford Mansfield (1819-1855). By Edward Ward

68

An Alchemical Ghost: The Rasaratnâkara by Nagarjuna. By Dominik Wujastyk

70

Al-Jawbari on False Alchemists. By Harold J. Abrahams

84

Notices

88

Reviews of Books

 

History of Clinical Chemistry. Edited by Johannes Büttner

90

Pioneer Plastic. The Making and Selling of Celluloid. By Robert Friedel

90

Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5, part V: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy. By Joseph Needham


91

Alchemical Studies. By C. G. Jung, translated by R. F. C. Hull

91

Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments. By Gerard L’E. Turner

92

A Time to Remember. The Autobiography of a Chemist. By Alexander Todd

93

Lexikon des Mittelalters. Vol. II. Edited by Liselotte Lutz et al

93

The Quest for Quarks. By Brian McCusker

94

Schweppes. The First 200 Years. By Douglas A. Simmons

94

Science and Social Change 1700-1900. By Colin A. Russell

95

Short Notices of Books

95

 

No. 3 – November 1984

Articles

 

Alchemy in Newton’s Library. By Richard S. Westfall

97

Alchemy and Eschatology in Seventeenth Century Poetry. By Stanton J. Linden

102

The Structure of Mythos: On the Cultural Stability of Alchemy. By Rainer E. Zimmermann


125

Notices

137

Reviews of Books

 

The Mercurian Monarch. Magical Politics from Spenser to Pope. By Douglas Brooks-Davies


138

Medicina e filosofia tra ’500 e ’600. By Giancarlo Zanier

138

The Smiling Spleen. Paracelsianism in Storm and Stress. By Walter Pagel

139

Richard Lower’s Vindicatio. A defence of the experimental method. Facsimile introduced, edited and translated by Kenneth Dewhurst


139

Indices Chemicorum Graecorum. I. Papyrus Leidensis, Papyrus Holmiensis. By Robert Halleux


140

The History of Chemical Technology. An Annotated Bibliography. By Robert P. Multhauf


140

La Turba Philosophorum Gallica. Edited with a commentary by Paulette Duval

141

Henry Cort: The Great Finer. Creator of Puddled Iron. By R. A. Mott, edited by Peter Singer


142

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Catalogue 5. Spectroscopes, Prisms & Gratings. By J. A. Bennett. The Celebrated Phaenomena of Colours: the Early History of the Spectroscope. By J. A. Bennett



142

Boussingault. Chemist and Agriculturalist. By F. W. J. McCosh

143

Short Notices of Books

144

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXII
No. 1 – March 1985

Articles

Page

The Significance of Chemical History. By Allen G. Debus

1

Crookes and Radioactivity: from Inorganic Evolution to Atomic Transmutation. By S. B. Sinclair


15

Chinese and Western Alchemy: the Link through Definition. By H. J. Sheppard

31

Agricola, Paracelsus, and "Chymia". By A. J. Rocke

37

Reviews of Books

 

Chemistry and Modern Society. Historical Essays in Honour of Aaron J. Ihde. Edited by John Parascandola and James C. Whorton


46

Amedeo Avogadro. A Scientific Biography. By Mario Morselli

46

The Ashmolean Museum and Oxford Science 1683-1983. By A. V. Simcock

47

Oxygen and the Conversion of Future Feedstocks. The Proceedings of the Third BOC Priestley Conference, London, September 12-15 1983. Royal Society of Chemistry Publication



48

Thomas Beddoes MD 1769-1808. Chemist, Physician, Democrat. By Dorothy A. Stansfield


49

Kunst und Wissenschaft um Paracelsus: Vorträge 1982/83 (Salzburger Beiträge zur Paracelsus Forschung; Folge 23)


49

Science versus Practice. Chemistry in Victorian Britain. By Robert Bud and Gerrylynn K. Roberts


50

 

No. 2 – July 1985

Articles

 

The Discovery of Line Spectra. By Frank A. J. L. James

53

A Contribution of Natural History to the Chemical Revolution in France. By James W. Llana


71

Reviews of Books

 

The Secret of the Golden Flower. A Chinese Book of Life. By Richard Willhelm


92

The Works of Thomas Vaughan. Edited by Alan Rurdrum with the assistance of Jennifer Drake-Brockman


92

In physicis futurorum saeculum respicio. Joachim Jungius und die Naturwissenschaftliche Revolution des 17.Jahrhunderts. By Christoph Meinel


93

Introduzione all’alchimia Indiana. By Arturo Schwarz

93

Steelmaking before Bessemer. By K. C. Barraclough

94

The Tincal Trail. A History of Borax. By N. J. Travis and E. J. Cox

95

 

No. 3 – November 1985

Articles

 

Vincente de Seabra and the Chemical Revolution in Portugal. By A. J. A. de Gouveia


97

Privilege, Communication, and Chemistry: the Hermetic-Alchemical Circle of Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. By Bruce T. Moran


110

Alchemy and Melancholy in Mediaeval and Renaissance Thought: a Query into the Mystical Basis of their Relationship. By Noel L. Brann


127

Reviews of Books

 

Studies in Mediaeval Science. Alchemy, Astrology, Mathematics and Medicine. By Pearl Kibre


148

Philosophers, Iosis and Water of Life. By Anne C. Wilson

149

The Scientific Re-interpretation of Form. By Norma E. Emerton

150

The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution. The Science Prizes, 1901-1905. By Elisabeth Crawford


150

Wie find Ich Literatur zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik. Edited by Burghard Weiss


151

Chansons intellectuelles sur la résurrection du Phénix. By Michel Maier (Reprint)


152

Prvky O… ima minulosti. By Jaroslav Zyka and Vladimír Karpenko

152

Le Filet d’Ariadne pour entrer avec seurete dans le Labryinthe de la Philosophie Hermetique. By Sylvain Maton (Reprint)


153

Astrologische-Magische Theorie und Praxis in der Heilkunde der frühen Neuzeit. By Wolf-Dieter Muller-Jahnke


153

Aurea Catena Homeri. Translated by Sigismund Bacstrom (Reprint)

154

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXIII
No. 1 – March 1986

Articles

Page

An Interpretation of the Fama Fraternitas with Respect to Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica. By T. M. Luhrman


1

Charles Loudon Bloxam – A Victorian University and Military Academy Chemistry Teacher. By D. I. Davies, D. C. Lyon and R. J. Spring


11

The British Association Committee on Chemical Symbols 1834: Edward Turner’s Letter to British Chemists and a Reply by William Prout. By W. H. Brock


33

Reviews of Books

 

Die Pharmazie im Spannungsfield der Neuorientierung: Philipp Lorenz Geiger (1785-1836) Leben, Werk und Wirken – Eine Biographie. By Ulrike Thomas


43

Images of Regeneration: a Study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and its Cultural Background. By Michael Srigley


43

Francis Bacon Science et Méthode. Actes du Colloque de Nantes. Edited by Michael Malherbe and Jean-Marie Pousseur


44

A History of the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. By Pieter Edward Verkade


45

Biblioteca magica dalle opere a stampa della Biblioteca Casantense di Roma (secc. xv-xvii). (Biblioteca di bibliografia Italiana CII)


45

Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Medicine. By Walter Pagel

45

Hermaphroditisches Sonn-und Mondskind (Mainz, 1752). Facsimile with a French Translation by Yann Lauthe and Introduction by Sylvain Matton


46

Chimica e Filosophia. Scienzia, Epistemologia, Storia e Religione nell’Opera di Pierre Duhem. By Roberto Maiocchi


47

Religion, Science and the World View. Essays in Honour of Richard Westfall. Edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber


47

The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century. Edited by A. Wear, R. K. French, and I. M. Lonie


48

From Protyle to Proton. William Prout and the Nature of Matter, 1785-1985. By W. H. Brock


48

Recent Developments in the History of Chemistry. Edited by C. A. Russell

49

Science and the Enlightenment. By Thomas Hankins

50

Justus Liebig and August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen (1841-1873). Edited by William Hodson Brock


50

 

No. 2/3 – July/December 1986

Articles

 

The Tree of Aristotle: Images of the Philosophers’ Stone. By Urszula Szulakowska

53

John Dastin’s Letter on the Philosophers’ Stone. By Wilfred R. Thiessen

78

Accomplishment or Dogma: Chemistry in the Introductory Works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes. By David Knight


88

The "Social Chemists": English Chemical Societies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. By Gwen Averly


99

Spiritus Aethereus: Theories of Etherification. By Claus Priesner

129

Reviews of Books

 

Chemistry in America 1876-1976. Historical Indicators. By Arnold Thackray, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, P. Thomas Carroll and Robert Budd


153

Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life. An Explanation of Scientific Creativity. By Frederick Lawrence Holmes


154

Pseudo-Bede: De Mundi Celestis Terrestrisque Constituione. A Treatise on the Universe and the Soul. Edited and translated by Charles Burnett, with the collaboration of members of a Seminar Group of the Warburg Institute



155

Theoriewandel in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte – Chemie im 18.Jahrhundert. By Elisabeth Ströker


155

Faraday rediscovered. Essays on the life and work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867. Edited by David Gooding and Frank A.J.L. James


156

Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. By Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer


157

Justus von Liebig und sein Einfluss auf die Entwicklung des Chemiestudiums und des Chemieunterrichts an Hochschulen und Schulen. By Willi Conrad


158

Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments and their Makers. Papers presented at the Fourth Scientific Instrument Symposium, Amsterdam 1984. Edited by P.R. de Clercq



158

The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles. By R. F. Tylecote

159

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXIV
No. 1 – March 1987

Articles

Page

The Society’s First Fifty Years: Part I – Ambix. By W. A. Smeaton

1

Democritus and the Beginnings of Greek Alchemy. By Jackson P. Hershbell

5

"Chemical Translation" and the Role of Impurities in Alchemy: Examples from Basil Valentine’s Triumph-Wagen. By Lawrence Principe


21

Moses Stringer (fl. 1695-1713): Iatrochemist and Mineral Master General. By John H. Appleby


31

Reviews of Books

 

The Central Science. Essay on the Uses of Chemistry. Edited by George B. Kauffman and H. Harry Szamant


45

Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy: A New Source. By Graham Rees, assisted by Christopher Upton


46

A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. By Ronald Edward Zupko


46

Robert T. Gunther and the Old Ashmolean. Edited by A. V. Simcock

47

Folk Medicine. The Art and the Science. Edited by Richard P. Steiner

47

Fuller’s Earth: A History of Calcium Montmorillonite. By Robert H.S. Robertson


48

Lexicon Des Mittelalters. Vol. III. Edited by Liselotte Lutz et al

49

Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire by Sadi Carnot. A Critical Edition with the Surviving Manuscripts. Translated and Edited by Robert Fox


49

History of Polyolefins. The World’s Most Widely Used Polymers. Edited by Raymond B. Seymour and Tai Cheng


50

Frederick Soddy (1877-1956). Early Pioneer in Radiochemistry. Edited by George B. Kauffman


50

From Paracelsus to Van Helmont. Studies in Renaissance Medicine and Science. By Walter Pagel. Edited by Marianne Winder


51

Walter Charleton (1620-1707), "Virtuoso": Leben und Werk. By Sabina Fleitmann


51

Justus von Liebig. Briefe an Vieweg. Edited by Margarete and Wolfgang Schneider


52

The Letters of Gerrit Jan Mulder to Justus Liebig (1838-1846). Edited by H.A.M. Snelders


52

Scurvy and Vitamin C. By Kenneth J. Carpenter

53

The History and Preservation of Chemical Instrumentation. Edited by John R. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna


54

Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, his sources and Influence. Edited by Roger French and Frank Greenaway


55

 

No. 2 – July 1987

Articles

 

The Society’s First Fifty Years: Part II – Members and Meetings. By W. A. Smeaton


57

"I Am the Poison-Dripping Dragon": Iguanas and their Symbolism in the Alchemical and Occult Paintings of David Teniers the Younger. By Jane P. Davidson



62

The Gurvitsch Rule: an Example of a Rule Misnamed? By Ludmilla Sliwinska and Butron H. Davis


81

J. J. Thomson and the Chemical Atom: from Ether Vortex to Atomic Decay. By S. B. Sinclair


89

Reviews of Books

 

The Physical Sciences Since Antiquity. Edited by Rom Harré

117

Lancastrian Chemist: the Early Years of Sir Edward Frankland. By Colin A. Russell


117

Harmonie mystique ou Accord des Philosophes chymiques. By Le Sr. L’Agneau (Paris, 1636); Clavicule de la Philosophie hermetique. By T. F. Geron (Paris, 1753); Cabala mineralis. By Simon Ben Cantara (ca. 1700). All facsimile reprints, published under the direction of Jean-Claude Bailly




118

Oeuvres de Lavoisier. Correspondence. Fascicule IV, 1784-1786. Comité Lavoisier de L’Académie des Sciences


119

 

No. 3 – November 1987

Articles

 

Alchemy and the World of Science: an Intellectual Biography of Frank Sherwood Taylor. By A. V. Simcock


121

Two Books are Added to Guyton de Morveau’s Library: A Study of Personal and Academic Communications in 1785. By W. A. Smeaton


140

Methods and Methodology in the Development of Organic Chemistry. By John Hedley Brooke


147

Kolbe versus the "Transcendental Chemists": the Emergence of Classical Organic Chemistry. By A. J. Rocke


156

The Changing Role of Synthesis in Organic Chemistry. By C. A. Russell

169

Reviews of Books

 

Die Alchemie in der europäische Kultur – und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. (Wolfenbutteler Forschungen Band 32). Edited by Christoph Meinel


181

All Scientists Now. The Royal Society in the nineteenth century. By Marie Boas Hall


182

Paracelsus in neuen Horizonten. By Kurt Goldammer

183

William Cooper’s A Catalogue of Chymical Books, 1673-88. A Verified Edition. By Stanton J. Linden


183

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXV
No. 1 – March 1988

Articles

Page

Jabirian Numbers, Pythagorean Numbers, and Plato’s Timeaus. By C. Anne Wilson


1

Raymund de Tarrega – Marrano, Heretic, Alchemist. By Raphaele Patai

14

Psychologists and the Dream Accounts of August Kekulé. By Susanna F. Rudofsky and John H. Wotiz


31

Early Applications of Infra-red Spectroscopy to Chemistry. By S. Nunziante Cesaro and E. Torracca


39

Reviews of Books

 

Science and Civilization in China. Vol. V, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Military Technology; the Gunpowder Epic. By Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yu, Lu Gwei-Djien and Wang Ling



47

Pollution and Control. A Social History of the Thames in the Nineteenth Century. By Bill Luckin


48

"Eine fast magische Anziehungskraft." Goethes "Walverwandtschaften" und die Chemie seiner Zeit. By Jeremy Adler


49

Chemistry, Alchemy and the New Philosophy 1500-1700. By Allan Debus

50

Chemistry and Theology in Mid-Victorian London. The Diary of Herbert McLeod 1860-70. Edited and Introduced by Frank A.J.L. James


50

Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry. Edited by James G. Traynham

51

 

No. 2 – July 1988

Articles

 

Gold from the Sea: Archibald Liversidge, FRS and the Chemical Prospectors. By Roy M. MacLeod


53

Coins and Medals Made of Alchemical Metal. By V. Karpenko

65

Philipp Lorenz Geiger and Justus Liebig. By Ulrica Thomas

77

J. J. Thomson and Radioactivity, Part I. By S. B. Sinclair

91

Reviews of Books

 

Man Masters Nature. 25 Centuries of Science. Edited by Roy Porter

105

Essays on the History of Organic Chemistry in the United States, 1875-1955. By Dean Stanley Tarbell and Tracy Tarbell


105

Intellectual Mastery of Nature. Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein. Vol. 1, The Torch of Mathematics 1800-70; Vol. 2, The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics 1870-1925. By Christa Jungnickel and Russel McCormmach



106

Medical Science and Medical Industry. The Formation of the American Pharmaceutical Industry. By Jonathan Liebenau


107

The Weights and Measures of England. By R. D. Connor

108

Paracelsus und Paracelsisten. Vorträge 1984/85. (Salsburger Beitrage zur Paracelsus-forschung, folge 25)


108

História e Desenvolvimiento da Ciência em Portugal. (Proceedings of the first colloquium on the History of Science in Portugal, held in Lisbon 15-19 April 1985). Academia das Ciências de Lisboa



109

Signatura Rerum. Segni, Magia e Cognoscenza da Paracelso a Leibniz. By Massimo Luigi Bianchi


110

A Centenary Tribute to Sir Robert Robinson, 1886-1975. Royal Society of Chemistry


111

 

No. 3 – November 1988

Articles

 

J. J. Thomson and Radioactivity, Part II. By S. B. Sinclair

113

Thirteenth Century Material Pantheism in the Pseudo-Lullian S-Circle of the Powers of the Soul. By Ursula Szulakowska


127

Medical chemistry at Guy’s Hospital (1770-1850). By Noel G. Coley

155

Reviews of Books

 

Erinnerungen eines deutsches Naturforschers. By Johannes Stark, with an introduction by Andreas Kleinert


169

George Ernst Stahl. By Irene Strube

170

English Science, Bacon to Newton. Edited by Brian Vickers

171

Chrysopoeia. (Revue publiée par la Societé d’Etude de l’Histoire d’Alchimie. Vol. 1, Fasc. 1 & 2)


171

Botticelli, Signorelli and Savonarolla. Theologia poetica and Painting from Boccaccio to Poliziano. By Stanley Meltzoff


172

Gassendi the Atomist. Advocate of History in an Age of Science. By Lynn Sumida Joy


172

The Rosicrucians and Magister Christoph Schlegel. Hermetic Roots of America. By Manley P. Hall, with supplements by A. Russell Slagel and Donald C. Kerr



173

Schets der Leer van Lavoisier door Martinus van Marum. Foreword by A.H.C.A. Weichmann, introduction by H.A.M. Snelders, annotations by Jan W. Van Spronsen



174

My Dear Mr Bell: Letters from Dr Jonathan Periera to Mr Jacob Bell, London, 1844 to 1853. Edited by C.P. Cloughly, J.G.L. Burnby and M.P. Earles


174

Oxford Rebels. The Life and Friends of Nevil Story Maskelyn 1823-1911, Pioneer Oxford Scientist, Photographer and Politician. By Vanda Morton


175

Norman Collie: a Life in Two Worlds. Mountain Explorer and Scientist 1854-1942. By Christine Mill


175

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXVI
No. 1 – March 1989

Articles

Page

Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier in 1789: The Chemical Revolution and the French Revolution. By W. A. Smeaton


1

The Lavoisier-Bucquet Collaboration: a Conjecture. By C. E. Perrin

5

The "Fatherland of Chemistry": Early Nationalistic Currents in Late Eighteenth Century German Chemistry. By Hans-Georg Schneider


14

Madame Lavoisier, P. S. and E. I. DuPont de Nemours and the Publication of Lavoisier’s "Mémoires de Chimie". By W. A. Smeaton


22

Lavoisier and the Phlogistic Connection. By Robert Siegfried

31

Essay Review: Chemical Literature 1700-1860. A Bibliography with Annotations. By William A. Cole


41

Reviews of Books

 

The History of Scientific Discovery: the story of science told through the lives of twelve great scientists. By A.J. Meadows [with W.H. Brock and A.G. Keller]


42

De la Transmutatione de Metalli. Poema d’Alchimia del XVI secolo. By Antonio Allegretti. Edited by Mino Gabriele


43

Il Giardino di Hermes. Massimiliano Palombara alchimista e rosacroce nella Roma del Seicento. By Mino Gabriele


43

Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance. By William H. Huffman

44

Power and Penury: Government, Technology and Science in Philip II’s Spain. By David C. Goodman


44

Archives of the British Chemical Industry 1750-1914. A Handlist. Compiled by Peter J.T. Morris and Colin A. Russell


45

The Age of Science. The Scientific World-view in the Nineteenth Century. By David Knight


46

University and Community in Nineteenth-Century Sydney. Professor John Smith 1821-1825. Edited by Roy MacLeod


46

 

No. 2 – July 1989

Articles

 

The Aether in Late 19th Century Chemistry. By Helge Kragh

49

Sex and Gestation, the Union of Opposites in European and Chinese Alchemy. By Richard K. Payne


66

Australian Chemists at University College London. By Allan Maccoll

82

Paul Harteck: The Triumphant Decade. By Adalbert Farkas

91

Reviews of Books

 

Astrology and Society: Historical Essays. Edited by Patrick Curry

102

Le Incision Alchemico-Metallurgiche di Domenico Beccafumi. By Mino Gabriele


103

Le Don de Dieu. Facsimile with introduction, transcription and notes by Mino Gabriele, together with an 1891 transcription by Albert Poisson


103

The Golden Game. Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century. By Stanislas Klossowski De Rola


104

Die gestriegelte Rocken-Philosophie. By John Georg Schmidt. Edited by Hans-Joachim Poeckern, with afterword by Roland Busch


104

The History and Natural History of Ephedra as Soma. By S. Mahdihassan

105

Deutschsprachige Chemielehrbücher (1775-1850). By Bettina Haupt

106

Science, Medicine and Dissent. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Edited by R.G.W. Anderson and Christopher Lawrence


106

Petrochemicals. The Rise of an Industry. By Peter H. Spitz

107

Justus von Liebig und Julius Eugen Schloßberger in ihren Briefen von 1844-1860. Edited by Fritz Heße and Emil Heuser


108

 

No. 3 – November 1989

Articles

 

Emil Fischer as "Chemical Mediator": Science, Industry, and Government in World War One. By Timothy D. Moy


109

The Research in Organic Chemistry of Aleksandr Borodin. By Ian D. Rae

121

John Keill’s De Operationum Chymicarum Ratione Mechanica. Translated by Anita Guerrini and Jole R. Shackleford


138

Essay Review: Eighteenth Century Medics. (Subscriptions, Licenses, Apprenticeships). By P. J. and R. V. Wallis


152

Reviews of Books

 

Cosmic Problems. Essays on Greek and Roman Philosophy of Nature. By David Furley


153

Die Berufung des Türhüters. Zur "Chymischen Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz" von Johann Valentin Andreae. By Regine Frey-Jaun


154

Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature. By F. W. J. Schelling. Translated by E.E. Harris and P. Heath


155

Revolutions in Science. Their Meaning and Relevance. Edited by William R. Shea


156

Profiles of Eminent American Chemists. By Raymond B. Seymour and Charles H. Fisher


156

Dopolnitel’nye Vidy Periodichnosti v Periodischeskoi’ Sisteme D. I. Mendeleeva. (Subsidiary Aspects of Periodicity and D. I. Mendeleev’s Periodic System). By V.P. Mel’nikov and I.S. Dmitriev



157

Aleksandr Porfir’evich Borodin. A Chemist’s Biography. By N.A. Figurovskii and Y. I. Solov’ev. Translated by C. Steinberg and G.B. Kauffman


157

A History of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society 1837-1987. By Vance Hall

158

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXVII
No. 1 – March 1990

Articles

Page

Social Climbing Through Chemistry: Justus Liebig’s Rise from the Niederer Mittelstand to the Bildungsbügurtum. By Pat Munday


1

Alfonso Cossa (1833-1902), a Self-taught Italian Chemist. By George B. Kauffman and Ester Molayem


20

The Study of Spiritual Alchemy: Mysticism, Gold-making and Hermeneutics. By Daniel Merkur


35

Alchemy, Magic, Poisons and the Virtues of Stones in the Old Russian Secretum Secretorum. By W. F. Ryan


46

Reviews of Books

 

Australian Science in the Making. Edited by R.W. Home. Australian Academy of Science/ Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1988


54

J. D. van der Waals: On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States [1873]. Edited by J.S. Rowlinson. North Holland, Amsterdam 1988; distributed in N. America by Elsevier Science Publishers NY



54

The Uses of Experiment. Studies in the Natural Sciences. Edited by David Gooding, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989



55

Justus von Liebig und der Pharmazeut Friedrich Julius Otto in ihren Briefen von 1837-1840 und 1857-1867. (Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Pharmazie in Braunschweig.) Edited by Emil Heuser. Bionomica Verlag: Mannhein 1989




56

Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Ingrid Merkel and Allen G. Debus. Folger Books: Washington DC; Associated University Presses: London, Toronto 1989



56

Through France with Berzelius. Live Scholars and Dead Volcanoes. By Carl Gustaf Bernhard. Pergamon Press: Oxford 1989


57

Metaphysische, experimentelle und utilitaristische Traditionen in der Antimonliterature zur zeit der "wissenschaftlichen Revolution" [1520-1820]. By Hermann Fischer. Braunschweig: Seiminar der Technischen Universität Braunschweig (Braunschwseiger Veröffentlichungen zu Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 30). Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag: Stuttgart 1988






58

James Joule. A Biography. By Donald S. L. Cardwell. Manchester University Press: Manchester 1989


58

 

No. 2 – July 1990

Articles

 

The Oldest Chemical Manuscript in the Czech Language. By Vladimir Karpenko

61

The Foundation of the First Modern Chemical Laboratories in Yugoslav Countries. By Ilinka Sencar-Cupovic


74

Reviews of Books

 

I Ching, or Book of Changes. Translated by Richard Wilhelm, and rendered into English by Cary F. Baines, with a foreword by C.J. Jung. Penguin Books, London 1989



85

Tao Te Ching. By Lao Tzu. Translation and commentary by Richard Wilhelm, with an English translation by W.H. Ostwald. Penguin Books, London 1989


85

The Alchemical Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull. By Michael Pereira. (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts XVIII). Warburg Institute, London 1989


85

Johannes’ de Rupescissa Liber de consideratione quinata essential omnium rerum Deutsch. (Studien zur alchemia Medica des 15. bis 17.Jahrhunderts mit kritischer Edition des Textes.) By Udo Benzenhöffer. Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmBH, Stuttgart 1989




86

L’Espressione e L’Immagine. Introduzione a Paracelso. By Giancarlo Zanier. Edizione Lint: Trieste, 1988


87

Eighteenth Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise. By Frederic Lawrence Holmes. University of California, Berkeley, 1989


88

Justus von Liebig. Boden, Ernahrung, Leben. Texte aus vier Jahrzehnten. Edited by Wilhelm Lewicki and Georg E. Siebeneicher. Paul Pietsch Verlag, Stuttgart 1989



88

Justus von Liebig und August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen. Nachtrage 1845-1869. Edited by Emil Heuser and Regine Zott. Justus von Liebig und Emil Erlenmeyer in ihren Briefen von 1861-1872. Edited by Emil Heuser. Bionomica-Verlag, Mannheim 1988




89

One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering. Edited by Nicholas A. Peppas, Kluwer Academic Publishers; Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1989


90

An Institute for an Empire. The Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt 1871-1918. By David Cahan. University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge 1989


90

The New Physics. Edited by Paul Davies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989


91

Schrödinger. Life and Thought. By Walter Moore. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989


91

Sir Henry Bessemer, FRS. An Autobiography. (Reprint of the 1905 Edition.) The Institute of Metals, London 1989


92

Chronologie Chemie 1800-1980. By Sieghard Neufeldt (2nd Edn). VCH Verlagsgeschellschaft, Mannheim 1987


93

Linus Pauling. A Man and his Science. By Anthony Sarafini. Paragon House, New York 1989


93

 

No. 3 – November 1990

Articles

 

Prophecy and Alchemy: the Origin of Eirenaeus Philalethes. By William Newman

97

Christoph Bergner: the last Prague Alchemist. By Vladimir Karpenko

116

Stephanus of Alexandria: Pharmaceutical Notions and Cosmology in his Alchemical Work. By Dr Maria Papathanassiou


121

Liebig, Gregory, and the British Association, 1837-1842. By W. H. Brock and Susanne Stark


134

Reviews of Books

 

Entwicklung und Institutionalisierung der Agrikulturchimie im 19.Jahrhundert: Liebig und die Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchsstationen. By Ursula Schling-Broderson. (Braunschweiger Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 31). Deutsche Apotheken Verlag, Stuttgart 1989





148

Paracelsus. Essential Readings. Selected and Translated by Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke. Crucible (The Aquarian Press); Wellingborough, Northants. 1990


148

Magic in the Middle Ages. By Richard Kieckheffer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990


149

The American Synthetic Rubber Research Programme. By Peter J.T. Morris. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1990


150

E. W. R. Steacie and Science in Canada. By M. Christine King. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 1989


150

Energy and Empire, A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin. By Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989


151

Ambix: Table of Contents and Index 1981-1990. Compiled by Dr W. A. Smeaton

153

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XXXVIII
No. 1 – March 1991

Articles

Page

Another Look at Robert Boyle’s Acceptance of the Mechanical Philosophy: its Limits and its Chemical and Social Contexts. By Yung Sik Kim


1

Peter Crossthwaite: John Dalton’s "Friend and Colleague". By Herbert T. Pratt

11

The Case of Joseph Griffin: from Artisan-Chemist and Author-Instructor to Business-Leader. By Brian Gee and William H. Brock


29

Reviews of Books

 

L’Art Hermetique à dècouvert ou nouvelle lumiére magique où sont contenus diverses Mystères des Egyptiens, des Hébreux et des Caldéens. By Thomas Vaughan. Facsimile of 1787 Edition, edited by Dorothy Kahn. J.C. Bailly, Gutenberg Reprints, Paris 1989




63

Bermannus (Le Mineur). Un Dialogue sur les mines. By George Agricola. Introduction, translation and commentary by Robert Halleaux and Albert Yans. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1990.



63

John Dee’s Natural Philosophy. Between Science and Religion. By Nicholas H. Clulee. Routledge, London and New York 1988


64

Tommaso Campanella. Sein Beitrag zur Medizin und Pharmazie der Renaissance. By Michael Mönnich. (Heidelberger Schriften zur Pharmazie- und Naturwissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 2.) Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft: Stuttgart 1990




65

Establishing the New Science. The Experience of the Early Royal Society. By Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1989


66

Robert Hooke. New Studies. Edited by Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1990


67

Chromatographic Adsorption Analysis: Selected Works. By Mikhail Semenovich Tswett. (Compiled by V.G. Berezkin.) Ellis Horwood, New York, London 1990



68

Georg von Welling (1655-1727). Studien zu Leben und Werk. (Heidelberger Studien zur Naturkunde der frühen Neuezeit Bd. 2.) By Petra Jungmayr. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990



68

Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary. By Trevor R. Williams. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990


69

Early Developments in Radiation Chemistry. Edited by J. Kroh. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge 1989


70

Man and Nature: the Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Unwin Hyman Paperbacks, London 1990


70

Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. The Making of a Science in America. By John W. Servos. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1990


71

 

No. 2 – July 1991

Articles

 

John Dastin: the Alchemist as Co-Creator. By Wilfred Thiesen

73

Benzene and Turpentine: the Pre-History of Drycleaning. By E. M. Cammidge

79

From Pasteur to Parity Violation: Cosmic Dissymmetry and the Origins of Biomolecular Handedness. By Stephen S. Mason


85

Reviews of Books

 

Alchemy in Europe. A Guide to Research. By Claudia Kren. Garland Publishing, New York and London 1990


100

Da Alquimia à Quimica: Um estudo sobre a passagem do pensamento mágico-vitalista ao mecanismo. By Ana Maria Alfonso Goldfarb. (Coleção Ciência Viva.) Nova Stella, São Paulo, 1987



100

John Dee’s Library Catalogue. Edited by Julian Roberts and Andrew G. Watson. Oxford University Press, Oxford (for the Bibliographical Society, London) 1990



101

Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution. Edited by David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990



102

A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences. By Alice Stroup. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford 1991



102

Alchemical Death and Resurrection. The Significance of Alchemy in the Age of Newton. By B.J.T. Dobbs. Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington DC, 1990



103

Romanticism and the Sciences. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990


104

The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. Edited with an Introduction by David B. Wilson. Two volumes (not sold separately): Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990




104

Chemistry as viewed from Bascome’s Hill. A History of the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. By Aaron J. Ihde. Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1990



105

A History of Lactic Acid Making. A Chapter in the History of Biotechnology. By H. Benninga. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London 1990



106

Études sur/ Studies on Hélène Metzger. Edited by Gad Freudenthal. (Collection de Travaux de l’Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, 32.) E. J. Brill, Leiden 1990



107

Dirac: a Scientific Biography. By Helge Kragh. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York etc. 1990


108

Electrochemistry Past and Present. Edited by John T. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna. (ACS Symposium Series 390.) American Chemical Society, Washington 1989



108

 

No. 3 – November 1991

Articles

 

Heinrich Caro at Roberts, Dale & Co. By Anthony S. Travis

113

Liebig’s Metamorphosis: From Organic Chemistry to the Chemistry of Agriculture. By Pat Munday


135

The Rehabilitation of an Agricultural Chemist: Justus von Liebig and the Seventh Edition. By Mark R. Finlay


155

Reviews of Books

 

The Study of Change. Chemistry in China 1840-1945. By James Reardon-Anderson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1991


168

Experiment, Right or Wrong. By Alan Franklin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990


169

Om Krudtets og Salpetersydningens historie. By Rolf W. Berg. (Extract from Danmarks Tekniske Museums Ârsbog 1988.) Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Elsinore, 1989



170

Die Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie. Hundert Jahre Wechselwirkung zwischen Fachswissenschaft Kommunikationsmedium und Gesellschaft. (Bibliothemata, Bd. 2.) By Thomas Hapke. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Hertz 1990



170

A Science of Impurity. Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain. By Christopher Hamlin. Adam Hilger, Bristol 1990


171

The University of London and the World of Learning, 1836-1986. Edited by F.M.L. Thompson. The Hambledon Press, London and Ronceverte, 1990


171

Vom hylealischen, das is pri-materialischen catholischen oder allgemeinen natürlichen Chaos, der naturgemässen Alchymiae und Alchymisten. By Heinrich Kuhnrath. Facsimile of the Frankfurt 1708 edition with an Introduction by Elmar R. Gruberg. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria, 1990





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CONTENTS
VOL. XXXIX
No. 1 – March 1992

Articles

Page

The Historiography of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey and Bibliography. By Marco Beretta


1

Vauquelin, Balzac and the Chemical Analysis of Hair. By Theodore L. Sourkes

11

John Dalton Settles in Manchester. By Herbert T. Pratt

17

Liebig’s Role in the Establishment of Agricultural Chemistry. By Uschi Schling-Brodersen


21

Reviews of Books

 

Toison d’Or et Alchimie. By Antoine Faivre. Milan: Archè, 1990. Rev. by Marianne Winder


32

Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain BC 2000 to AD 1500. Edited by C.R. Blick. London: Institute of Metals, 1991. Rev. by Marilyn Palmer


32

Rencontres de cultures dans la philosophie médiévale. Traductions et traducteurs de l’Antiquité tardive au XIVe. Edited by Jacquelin Hamesse and Marta Fattori. Louvain-la-Neuve: L’Institute d’Etudes Médiévales dé l’Université Catholique de Louvain, 1991. Rev. by Vivian Nutton




33

Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. Edited by S. Pumfrey, P.L. Rossi and M. Slawinski. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Rev. by Graham Rees.



33

Basil Valentine. His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with Annotations of Theodore Kirkringius (1678). Edited by L.G. Kelly. New York: Garland, 1990. Rev. by R.P. Multhauf



34

La Porta Magica. Luoghi e memorie nel giardino di piazza Vittorio. Edited by Nicoletta Cardano. Rome: Fratelli Palombi Editori, 1990. Rev. by Michaela Pereira



35

Henry More: Magic, Religion and Experiment. By A. Rupert Hall. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Rev. by Graham Rees


35

Handlist of Scientific Instrument-Makers’ Trade Catalogues, 1600-1914. By R.G.W. Anderson, J. Burnett and B. Gee. (National Museums of Scotland Information Series No. 8). Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland in Association with the Science Museum, 1990. Rev. by Frank Greenaway




36

Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist. A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century. By Geoffrey Cantor. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. Rev. by Frank Greenaway



36

The Correspondence of Michael Faraday. Vol. 1, 1811-1831. Letters 1-524. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1991. Rev. by Aubrey Tulley



37

Curiosity Perfectly Satisfyed. Faraday’s Travels in Europe 1813-1815. Edited by Brian Bowers and Lenore Symons. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by Maurice Crosland



38

Sunto di un corso di filosofia chimica. By Stanislao Cannizzaro. Commentary and Notes by Luigi Cerruti; introduction by Leonello Paoloni. Palermo: Sellerio editore, 1991. Rev. by Marco Beretta



38

The Royal Society of Chemistry. The First 150 Years. By David H. Whiffen, with the late Donald H. Hey. London: Royal Society of Chemistry, 1991. Rev. by Gerrylynn K. Roberts



39

Die Rolle des Fleischextrakts für die Ernährungswissenschaften und den Aufsteig der Suppenindustrie. By Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg. (Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Nr. 70). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. Rev. by W.H. Brock




39

At the Sign of the Plough. Allen & Hanburys and the British Pharmaceutical Industry 1715-1990. By Geoffrey Tweedale. London: John Murray, 1990. Rev. by M.P. Earles



40

Steelmaking: 1850-1900. By K. C. Barraclough. London: The Institute of Metals, 1990. Rev. by Sue Cackett


41

Contrasts in Scientific Style. Research Groups in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. By Joseph S. Fruton. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 191). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. Rev. by Jack Morrell




42

From Caveman to Chemist. Circumstances and Achievements. By Hugh W. Salzberg. Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1991. Rev. by David Knight



42

Stroenie Monosakharidov: Istoricheski0 Ocherk (The Structure of Monosaccharides: A Historical Essay). By Z. E. Gel’man, Irkutsk, Siberia: Izdatel’stvo Irkutskogo Universiteta, 1991. Rev. by George B. Kauffman



43

Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Libertine. By Susanna Åkerman. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. Rev. by Christopher McIntosh



43

Science de l’Air. Studi su Felice Fontana. By Ferdinando Abbri. Cosenza: Edizione Brenner, 1991. Rev. by Maurice Crosland


44

 

No. 2 – July 1992

Articles

 

The Chemistry and Metallurgy of Transmutation. By Vladimír Karpenko

47

Robert Boyle’s Alchemical Secrecy: Codes, Ciphers and Concealments. By L.M. Principe


63

The Mishaps of Peripheral Science: The Life and Work of Manoel Joaquim Henriques de Paiva, Luso-Brazilian Chemist and Physician of the Late Eighteenth Century. By Carlos A. L. Filgueiras



75

Essay Review: Alchemy Revisited. Proceedings of the International Conference in the History of Chemistry at the University of Groningen. Edited by Z. R. W. Von Martels. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Rev. by P.M. Rattansi



91

Reviews of Books

 

The Early Ethics and Essays of Robert Boyle. By John T. Harwood. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Rev. by Malcolm Oster


95

Michael Faraday’s "Chemical Notes, Hints, Suggestions, and Objects of Pursuit" of 1822. Edited by Ryan D. Tweeny and David Gooding. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by Frank Greenaway



96

The Industrial Revolution in Metals. Edited by Joan Day and R. F. Tylecote. London: Institute of Metals, 1991. Rev. by R. Angus Buchanan


97

Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science (Chemists and Chemistry, Vol. 13). By Sydney Ross. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Rev. by B. Gee



97

Berichte der Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft zu Giessen. Band I. Symposium "150 Jahre Agrikulturchemie". Edited by G. K. Judel, M. Winnewisser and J. C. Grecu. Giessen: Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft, 1990 [1992]. Rev. by W.H. Brock



97

Die Nachläße von Martius, Liebig und den Brüdern Schlagintweit in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Edited by Anne Büchler, Rolf Schumacher and Stephan Kellner. (Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis, tome X, pars 2.) Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. Rev. by W.H. Brock





98

The Alchemical World of the German Court. Occult Philosophy and Chemical Medicine in the Circle of Moritz von Hessen (1572-1632). (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft H. 29). By Bruce T. Moran. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Allen G. Debus




98

Anne Bradstreet Revisited. By Rosamond Rosenmeier. Boston: Twayne, 1991. Rev. by Robert Ward


99

Science and Religion. Some Historical Perspectives. (Cambridge History of Science Series.) By John Hedley Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James



100

Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquility. Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought. Edited by Margaret J. Osler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by Marie Boas Hall



100

The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Edited by David Goodman and Colin A. Russell. Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton/ Open University, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock



100

 

No. 3 – November 1992

Articles

 

The Astrologer’s Assay of the Alchemist: Early References to Alchemy in Arabic and Latin Texts. By Charles Burnett


103

Phlogiston After Oxygen. By Douglas Allchin

110

The Chemical Society of London and the Dye Industry in the 1860s. By Peter J. T. Morris and Anthony S. Travis


117

Karl Aloys Schenzinger’s Novel, Anilin: Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Nazi Literaturpolitik. By Michael N. Keas


127

Essay Review: In Search of a Cure. A History of Pharmaceutical Discovery. By M. Weatherall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Rev. by Sir William Paton


141

Reviews of Books

 

Histoire de l’ésotérisme et des sciences occultes. By Jean-Paul Corsetti. Paris: Références Larousse, 1992. Rev. by Keith Hutchinson


144

The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber. A Critical Edition, Translation & Study. By William R. Newman. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. Rev. by Michèle Mertens



144

Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640-1700. Edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by G. Rees



145

Sir Isaac Newton. A Catalogue of Manuscripts and Papers collected and published on microfilm by Chadwyck-Healey. Edited by Peter Jones. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. Rev. by B.J.T. Dobbs



146

Bibliotheca Tinctoria. Annotated Catalog of the Sydney M. Edelstein Collection in the History of Bleaching, Dyeing, Finishing and Spot Removing. By Moshe Ron. Jerusalem: Jewish National and University Library, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton




147

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1841-1991. A Political and Social History. By S.W.F. Holloway. London: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1991. Rev. by Gerrylynn K. Roberts



148

Badani Cia» Radioaktywnych. [1904]. By Marya Sklodowska-Curie. Edited by Józefa Hurwica. Warszawa: Ike-Instytut Kszta» cenia Ekonomicznego Pte, 1992. Rev. by S.B. Sinclair



148

Harriet Brooks, Pioneer Nuclear Scientist. By Marlene F. Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992. Rev. by A.G. Keller



149

A Semiempirical Life. By Michael S. Dewar. (Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series). Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1992. Rev. by M.L. Tobe



150

Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in our Environment. By Joseph V. Rodricks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by T.B. Mepham



150

Du flou au clair? Histoire de l’affinité chimique de Cardan à Prigogine. By Michelle Goupil. Paris: Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1991. Rev. by A.M. Duncan



151

Soedineniià Vysshego Poriàdka (Compounds of Higher Order). By Yu. N. Kukushkin. Leningrad: Khimiià, 1991. Rev. by George B. Kauffman


152

Ideas in Chemistry. A History of the Science. By David Knight. London: The Athlone Press, 1992. Rev. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent


153

Chemical Evolution: Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living Systems. By Stephen F. Mason. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Rev. by M.A. Sutton


153

Joseph Black: A bibliography. By J.G. Fyffe and R.G.W. Anderson. London: Science Museum, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton


154

Historical Atlas of Crystallography. Edited by J. Lima-DeFaria. Dordrecht: The International Union of Crystallography/ Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Rev. by D.R. Russell



154

A Scientist’s War. The War Diaries of Sir Clifford Paterson 1939-45. Edited by Robert Clayton and Joan Algar. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by D. Edgerton



155

Exploring the Sun. Solar Science since Galileo. By Karl Hufbauer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Rev. by F.A.J.L. James


155

Indian Alchemy or Rasayana in the Light of Asceticism and Geriatrics. By S. Mahdihassan. Delhi: Motilal Barnasidass Publishers, 1991. Rev. by D. Pingree


156

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XL
No. 1 – March 1993

Articles

Page

The Development of Science and Scientific Communication: Justus Liebig’s Two Famous Publications of 1840. By Regine Zott


1

When is a tool not a tool? Understanding the Role of Laboratory Equipment in the Early Colloidal Chemistry Laboratory. By Andrew Ede


11

Note: Alembics, Cucurbits, Phials, Crucibles: A 16th-Century Alchemical Laboratory Inventory Excavated in Austria. By R. W. Soukup, S. von Osten, and H. Mayer



25

Reviews of Books

 

Graf Wolfgang II von Hohenlohe und die Alchemie. Alchemistische Studien in Schloss Weikersheim 1587-1610. By Jost Weyer. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1992. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe



27

Hexenkräuter oder Arznei. Die Arbeitungsmittel im 16. und 17.Jahrhundert. By Larissa Leibrock-Plehn. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Marianne Winder



27

Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance. By F. David Hoeniger. Newark, Del: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. Rev. by Andrew Wear



28

Nicholas Culpeper. English Physician and Astrologer. By Olav Thulesius. New York: St. Martin’s Press; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. Rev. by D.E. Allen


29

Promoting Experimental Learning. Experiment and the Royal Society 1660-1727. By Marie Boas Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by David Gooding



30

Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle. A Guide to Manuscripts and Microfilm. Compiled by Michael Hunter. (Collections from the Royal Society). Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America. Rev. by Malcolm Oster



30

Die Alchemie und ihr Stummes Buch (Mutus Liber). Vollständige Wiedergabe der Original-Ausgabe von La Rochelle 1677. Introduction and commentary by Eugène Canseliet. Amsterdam: Edition Weber, 1991. Rev. by Y.K. Centeno



31

The Invisible College: A Study of Three Original Rosicrucian Texts. By Stanley W. Beeler. New York: AMS Press, 1991. Rev. by Deborah L. Madsen


32

The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason. Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. By Christopher McIntosh. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992. Rev. by C. Webster



32

Jonathan Swift and the Millenium of Madness: The Information Age in Swift’s ‘A Tale of the Tub’. By Kenneth Craven. Leiden, New York and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1992. Rev. by Stuart Sim



33

Chemical Lectures of H. T. Scheffer. Edited by Torbern Bergman (1775) and translated by J. A. Schufle. (Chemists and Chemistry, vol. 14). Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton



34

Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie: Die Bedeutung der Chemie und des Experiments in der Vulkanismus-Neptunismus-Kontroverse. By Bernhard Fritscher. (Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften. Bd. XXV). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Martin Guntau





35

Eilhard Mitscherlich. Baumeister am Fundament der Chemie. By Hans Werner Schütt. (Abhandlungen und Berichte, Neue Folge, Bd. 8). München: Deutsches Museum/R. Oldenburg Verlag, 1992. Rev. by Robin Keen



36

Naturwissenschaften und Chemische Industrie in Deutschland. Voraussetzungen und Mechanism ihres Aufstiegs in 19.Jahrhundert. By Walter Wetzel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Jeffrey A. Johnson



36

Weighed in the Balance. A History of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. By P. W. Hammond and Harold Egan. London: HMSO, 1992. Rev. by Ray Anderson



37

The Historical Development of Chemical Concepts. By Roman Mierzecki. (Chemists and Chemistry, vol. 12). Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers; Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe-Polish Scientific Publishers, 1991. Rev. by Colin A. Russell




38

 

No. 2 – July 1993

Articles

 

Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth Century: Strange Bedfellows? By Martha Baldwin


41

Justus von Liebig, Eben Horsford and the Development of the Baking Powder Industry. By Paul R. Jones


65

Adolphe Wurtz and the Atomism Controversy. By Ana Carneiro

75

Essay Review: Psyche and Matter. By Marie-Louise Franz. Boston, London: Shambala Publications, 1992. Rev. by Kenneth Craven


96

Reviews of Books

 

Faszination Chemie: 7000 Jahre Lehre von Stoffen und Prozessen. By Otto Krätz. Munich: Callwey Verlag, 1990. Rev. by George B. Kauffman


99

Histoire de la chimie. By Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. Paris: Editions Découverte, 1993. Rev. by Maurice Crosland


100

The Fontana History of Chemistry. By William H. Brock. London: Fontana Press, 1992. Rev. by Alec Campbell


100

The History of Chemistry. By John Hudson. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. Rev. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent


101

A History of the International Chemical Industry. By Fred Aftalion. Trs. Otto Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock



102

Square Rounds. By Tony Harrison. London, Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992. Rev. by Pat Munday


102

Science Preserved. A Directory of Scientific Instruments in Collections in the United Kingdom and Eire. By Mary Holbrook, with R.G.W. Anderson and D.G. Bryden. London: HMSO, 1992. Rev. by Frank Greenaway



103

The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine. Edited by Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Michael Worboys



104

Die okkulten Wissenschaften in der Renaissance. Edited by August Buck. (Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, Bd. 12). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992. Rev. by Marianne Winder



104

Rationalité de l’Alchimie au XVIIe Siècle. By Bernard Joly. Includes Latin text and French translation of Manuscriptum ad Fredericum (1653) by Pierre-Jean Fabre. Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1992. Rev. by Allen G. Debus



105

The Rise of Public Science. Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750. By Larry Stewart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Anita Guerrini



106

Science as Public Culture. Chemistry and the Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820. By Jan Golinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by R.G.W. Anderson



107

LAVOISIER et le Révolution Chimique. Edited by Michelle Goupil with Patrice Bret and Francine Masson. [SABIX-Société des Amis de la Bibliothéque de l’Ecole polytechnique]. Paris: Ecole polytechnique, 1992. Rev. by Arthur Donovan




108

Enlightenment Science in the Romantic Era. The Chemistry of Berzelius & its Culture Setting. Edited by Evan M. Melhado and Tore Frängsmyr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Mi Gyung Kim



108

Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften. By Otto Krätz. Munich: George Callwey Verlag, 1992. Rev. by George B. Kauffman


109

Humphry Davy. Science and Power. By David Knight. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Rev. by Frank Greenaway


110

Die streitbaren Gelehrten. Justus Liebig und die preußischen Universitäten. Kommentierte Edition eines historischen Disputes. Edited by Regine Zott and Emil Heuser. (Berliner Beitrage zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 15). Berlin ERS (Ellen R. Swinne) – Verlag, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock





110

Universität und Ministerium im Vormärz. Justus Liebigs Briefwechsel mit Justin von Linde. By Eva-Marie Felschow und Emil Heuser. (Studiana Giessensia 3). Giessen: Verlag der Ferber’schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock




111

Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro. Scritti e Carteggi 1857-1862. Edited by Leonello Paoloni. Palermo: Facoltà di Scienza, Università di Palermo. Rev. by Catherine Kounelis



112

Die Allianz von Wissenschaft und Industrie: August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818-1892): Zeit, Werk, Wirkung. Edited by C. Meinel and H. Scholz. Weinheim, New York, Cambridge, Basel: VCH, 1992. Rev. by David H. Leaback



112

Nationalism and Internationalism in Science 1880-1939. Four Studies of the Nobel Population. By Elisabeth Crawford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by Peter Collins



113

Penicillin-herstellung. Von den Anfängen bis zur Großproduktion. By Ingrid Pieroth. (Heidelberger Schriften zur Pharmazie- und Naturwissenschafts-geschichte, Bd. 9). Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgessellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Trevor I. Williams




114

Glaxo: A History to 1962. By R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Judy Slinn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by T.B. Mepham


115

A Skeptical Biochemist. By Joseph S. Fruton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Rev. by Mikuls Teich


116

Following the Trail of Light. A Scientific Odyssey. By Melvin Calvin. (Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series). Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 1992. Rev. by Lord Porter



117

Rosarium Philosophorum. Ein alchemisches Florilegium des Spätmittelalters. (Faksimilie der illustrierten Erstausgabe Frankfurt 1550). Edited by Joachim Telle with German translation by Lutz Claren and Joachim Huber. 2 vols. Weinheim: VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Joscelyn Godwin




118

 

No. 3 – November 1993

Articles

 

Between Magic and Science: Numerical Magic Squares. By Dr Vladimír Karpenko

121

The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius: His Central Nitre Theory. By Zbigniew Szydlo


129

The Correspondence of a XVII Century ‘Chymicall Gentleman’: Sir Cheney Culpeper and the Chemical Interests of the Hartlib Circle. By Stephen Clucas


147

Reviews of Books

 

L’Oro dei Filosofi. Saggio sulle idee di un Alchemista del Trecento. By Michela Pereira. (Biblioteca di Medioevo Latino, 7). Spoleto: Centro di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1992. Rev. by Antonio Clericuzio



171

Francis Bacon. History, Politics & Science, 1561-1626. By B. H. G. Wormald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by Graham Rees


172

Before and After Cannizzaro. A Philosophical Commentary on the Development of the Atomic and Molecular Theories. By John Bradley. Caithness: Published for John Bradley by Whittles Publishing Services, 1992. Rev. by John Hedley Brooke




172

The Kekulé Riddle. A Challenge for Chemists and Psychologists. Edited by John H. Wotiz. Clearwater, FL; Vienna, IL: Cache River Press, 1993. Rev. by Anthony S. Travis



173

Modern Esoteric Spirituality. Edited by Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman. London: SCM Press, 1993. Rev. by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke


174

De geschiedenis van de scheikunde in Nederland. Van alchemie tot chemie en chemische industrie rond 1900. By H. A .M. Snelders. Delft: Delftse Universitaire Pers, 1993. Rev. by Willem Hackmann



175

Half a Century of Free Radical Chemistry. By D. H. R. Barton and S. I. Parekh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by Colin A. Russell


176

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XLI
No. 1 – March 1994

Articles

Page

Chairman’s and Editor’s Remarks

1

Historiography of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century: Hermann Boerhaave and William Cullen. By J.R.R. Christie


4

History and Science, History of Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Renovation of the Academic Professions in France. By A.J. Rocke


20

Square Rounds and Other Awkward Fits: Chemistry as Theatre. By Gillian Beer

33

Essay Review: Hermetica. The Greek Corpus Hermetica and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation, with notes and introduction. By Brian P. Copenhaver. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by B. Vickers



45

Reviews of Books

 

Die Alchemistische Lehrdichtung des Gratheus filius philosophi in Cod. Vind. 2372. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur okkulten Wissenschaft im Spätmittelalter. I: Einleitung – Untersuchungen – Kommentar. II: Textedition – Übersetzung – Register. By Helmut Birkham. 2 vols. Österreichische Akademie der Wissensschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte 591. Wien. Österreichische Akademie der Wissensschaften, 1992. Rev. by N.F. Palmer







48

The Janus Face of Genius. The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. By Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Rev. by P.E. Spargo



49

The Life of Isaac Newton. By Richard Westfall. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by A.A. Mills


51

Joseph Priestley Political Writings. Edited by P.N. Miller. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by J. Golinski


51

Berzelius und Liebig. Ihre Briefe 1831-1845. Edited by Wilhelm Lewicki. Göttingen, Augsburg. Jürgen Cromm Verlag, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock


51

Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. By Justus Liebig. Facsimile of 1st ed., Braunschweig 1842, plus supplement edited by Wilhelm Lewicki. Pinneberg. Agrimedia Hils oHG im Verlag Alfred Strohe, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock




52

Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy. By Kenneth L. Caneva. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1993. Rev. by F.A.J.L. James


52

Contesting Cultural Authority. Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life. By Frank M. Turner. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by J.B. Morrell


53

The Rainbow Makers. The Origins of the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western Europe. By Anthony S. Travis. Bethlehem, PA. Lehigh University Press, 1993. Rev. by D.H. Leaback



54

Van Beroep ‘Chemiker’. De opkomst van de industriële chemicus en het polytechnische onderwijs in Duitsland (1790-1850). [‘Chemiker’ by Occupation: The Rise of the Industrial Chemist and Polytechnic Education in Germany (1790-1850)]. By Ernst Homburg. Delft. Delftse Universitaire Pers, 1993. Rev. by T.H. Levere





56

Der Fall Clara Immerwahr. Leben für eine humane Wissenschaft. By Gerit von Leitner. Munich. Verlag C. H. Beck, 1993. Rev. by J.A. Johnson


57

Enjoying Organic Chemistry, 1927-1987. By Egbert Havinga. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1991. Rev. by W.J. Hornix


58

Institut Obschei i Neorganischeskoi Khimii im. N. S. Kurnakova Rosiiskoi Akademii Nauk: Istoricheskii ocherk [N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Historical Essay]. By Yu. I. Solov’ev. Moscow. Nauka, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman




59

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 1901-1992. Edited by Laylin K. James. History of Modern Chemical Sciences. Washington DC. American Chemical Society/ Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1993. Rev. by W.H. Brock



60

 

No. 2 – July 1994

Articles

 

Le Châtelier, ‘Public Prosecutor’ of Darzens. By Pierre Laszlo

65

Emma Perry Carr: The Spectrum of a Life. By Carole B. Shmurak

75

The Development of Ingold’s System of Organic Chemistry. By K. Schofield

87

Reviews of Books

 

La parole des choses ou le langage de la chimie. By Pierre Laszlo. Collection Savoir. Paris. Hermann, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman


108

Gnosis. An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions. By Dan Merkur. Albany, NY. State University of New York Press, 1993. Rev. by N. Goodrick-Clarke



109

500 Years of Gnosis in Europe. (Exhibition Catalogue of Printed Books and Manuscripts from the Gnostic Tradition). Compiled by Carlos Gilly and Marina Afanasyeva. Amsterdam. ‘In de Pelikaan’ (Bibliotheca Hermetica), 1993. Rev. by O.P. Grell




109

Robert Boyle Reconsidered. Edited by Michael Hunter. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by M.B. Hall


111

Lavoisier. Memoires d’une révolution. By Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Paris. Flammarion, 1993. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton


112

Affinity and Shinwya Ryoku. Introduction of Western Chemical Concepts in early Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Togu Tsukahara. Amsterdam. J. C. Gieben, 1993. Rev. by D.M. Knight



113

Defining Science. William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in early Victorian Britain. By Richard Yeo. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by D.B. Wilson



114

The World of Physical Chemistry. By Keith J. Laidler. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1993. Rev. by M.A. Sutton


115

Institut Obschei i Neorganischeskoi Khimii im. N. S. Kurnakova Rosiiskoi Akademii Nauk: Istoricheskii ocherk [N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Historical Essay]. By Yu. I. Solov’ev. Moscow. Nauka, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman




116

Salt and Water in Culture and Medicine. By Poul Astrup, Peter Bie and Hans Chr. Engell. Copenhagen. Munksgaard, 1993. Rev. by N.G. Coley


117

 

No. 3 – November 1994

Articles

 

Islamic Alchemy According to al-Khwarizmi. By Karin C. Ryding

121

The Sources of Arthur Dee’s Fasciculus Chemicus (1631). By Lyndy Abraham

135

Angelo Sala, an Iatrochemist of the Late Renaissance. By Zahkar E. Gelman

142

Reviews of Books

 

Alchemie et Philosophie à la Renaissance. Edited by Jean Claude Margolin and Sylvan Matton. Paris. Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1993. Rev. by L.M. Principe



161

Chemistry Imagined. Reflections on Science. By Roald Hoffmann and Vivian Torrence. Washington DC. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Rev. by G. Beer



161

After Newton: Essays on Natural Philosophy. By P. M. Harman. Aldershot, Hants. Variorum, 1993. Rev. by G.A.J. Rogers


162

The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Vol. 2, 1832 – December 1840, Letters 525-1333. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. London. Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1993. Rev. by B. Gee



163

Auguste Laurent and the Prehistory of Valence. By Marya Novitski. Chur, Switzerland. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992. Rev. by J.H. Brooke


164

Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro 1863-1868. Edited by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario de Storia della Scienza Quaderni N. 3, 1993. Rev. by C. Kounelis


165

Organic Chemistry: Its Language and its State of the Art. Edited by M. Volkan Kisakürek. Basel, Switzerland. Verlag Helvetica Chemica Acta, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman



166

Leaving No Stone Unturned. Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry. Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1993. Rev. by C.A. Russell



167

From Turkey Red to Tyrian Purple. Textile Colours for the Industrial Revolution. By Anthony S. Travis. Jerusalem, The Jewish National and University Library. Sidney M. Edelstein Collection, 1993. Rev. by F.G. Page



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CONTENTS
VOL. XLII
No. 1 – March 1995

Articles

Page

Science as Cultural Ornament: Bunsen, Kirchhoff and Helmholtz in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baden. By Frank A.J.L. James


1

Artificial Dyes in John Lightfoot’s Broad Oak Laboratory. By Anthony S. Travis

10

Chemical Organisation in Australia and New Zealand. By Ian D. Rae

28

Essay Review: The Chemistry of Light. Fits, Passions and Paroxysms: Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newton’s Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflections. By Alan E. Shapiro. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by R.W. Home




50

Reviews of Books

 

The Mirror of Alchimy Composed by the Thrice-Famous and Learned Fryer, Roger Bachon. Edited by Stanton J. Linden. (English Renaissance Hermeticism Series, vol. 4). New York. Garland Publishing Inc., 1992. Rev. by G. Rees



52

The Enlightenment of Matter. The Definition of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier. By Marco Beretta. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1993. Rev. by A.M. Duncan



52

Linné et la France (1780-1850). By Pascal Duris. (Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, vol. 318). Genève. Librairie Droz, 1993. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton


53

The Teaching of Science at Christ’s Hospital Since 1900 AD. Compiled by Gordon Van Praagh. Crawley, W. Sussex. Frognal Publishers, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock



54

Highlights of Chemistry as Mirrored in Helvetica Chemica Acta. Edited by M. Volkan Kisakürek and Edgar Heilbronner. Basel. Verlag Helvetica Chemica Acta; Weinheim. VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman



55

75 vuotta toimintaa kemian hyväski-Suomalaisten Kemistien Seura 1919-1994. By Lauri Ninistö. Helsinki. Suomalaisten Kemistien Seura, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman



55

Collins Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Edited by Trevor Williams. Glasgow. Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. Rev. by John Hudson


56

Machines are Frozen Spirit. The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century - A Weberian Interpretation. By Mikael Hård. Frankfurt am Maine. Campus Verlag, 1994. Rev. by Ray Anderson



57

Chemical Sciences in the Modern World. Edited by Seymour Mauskopf. (The Chemical Sciences in Society Series.) Philadelphia, PA. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Rev. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent



58

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry. Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines 1800-1950. By Mary Jo Nye. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 1993. Rev. by Martin D. Saltzman



59

The Earth, Humanity and God. By Colin A. Russell. (The Templeton Lectures, Cambridge, 1993). London. UCL Press, 1994. Rev. by Ben Mepham


60

Fritz Haber. Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude. Eine Biographie. By Dietrich Stoltzenberg. Weinheim. VCH, 1994. Rev. by Peter Alter


60

Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Chemical Industry, 1945-1961. By Raymond G. Stokes. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by Jeffery A. Johnson



61

 

No. 2 – July 1995

Articles

 

The Mysticism and Science of Johann Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644). By Berthold Heinecke


65

E. F. Geoffroy’s Table of Different ‘Rapports’ Observed Between Different Chemical Substances – A Reinterpretation. By Ursula Klein


79

Lavoisier, the Two French Revolutions and the ‘Imperial Despotism of Oxygen’. By Maurice Crosland


101

Reviews of Books

 

The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto von Guericke. Translated and edited by Margaret Glover Foley Ames. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Rev. by Stephen Pumfrey



119

The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution. By Michael Hunter. Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon. British Society for the History of Science, 1994. Rev. by Alan B.H. Taylor




120

Verbindung und Affinität. Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen Chemie an der Wende vom 17. zum 18. Jahrhundert. By Ursula Klein. Berlin. Berkhäuser Verlag, 1994. Rev. by Togo Tsukahara



121

Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution. By Arthur Donovan. (Blackwell Scientific Biographies). Oxford. Blackwell, 1993. Rev. by Frank Greenaway



122

Justus von Liebig und Hermann Kolbe in ihren Briefen, 1846-1873. Edited by Alan J. Rocke and Emil Heuser. Mannheim. Bionomica Verlag, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock



123

Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society, 1770-1878. By Trevor H. Levere. Aldershot, Hants. Variorum (Ashgate Publishing Limited), 1994. Rev. by K.D. Watson



124

Geschiedenis van de Techniek in Nederland. De wording van een moderne samenleving 1800-1890. Edited by H.W. Linsten et al. (Delfstoffen, machine-en scheepsbouw, stoom, chemie, telegrafie en telefonie, vol. 4). Zutphen. Stichting Historie der Techniek, Walburg Pers, 1993. Rev. by Willem Hackmann





125

American Chemists and Chemical Engineers, volume 2. Edited by Wyndham D. Miles and Robert F. Gould. Guildford, CT. Gould Books, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman



126

 

No. 3 – November 1995

Articles

 

Nikolai Zinin at Kazan University. By Nathan M. Brooks

129

The Chemist as Expert: The Consulting Career of Sir William Ramsay. By Katherine D. Watson


143

Some Aspects of the Work of Arthur Lapworth. By K. Schofield

160

Reviews of Books

 

The Business of Alchemy. Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. By Pamela H. Smith. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1994. Rev. by Mikuláš Teich



187

Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Edited by Pio Rattansi and Antonio Clericuzio. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Rev. by Marianne Winder



187

Water Which Does Not Wet Hands. The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius. By Zbigniew Szydlo. Warsaw. Polish Academy of Sciences, 1994. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe



188

The Mirror of Alchemy. Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. By Gareth Roberts. London. The British Library, 1994. Rev. by Allen G. Debus



189

The Atlantic Vision. Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science. By Gunnar Eriksson. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1994. Rev. by David Knight



190

In the Shadow of Lavoisier; the ‘Annales de Chimie’ and the Establishment of a New Science. By Maurice Crosland. Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon, 1994. Rev. by Jack Meadows



191

The Quiet Revolution. Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry. By Alan J. Rocke. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 1993. Rev. by W.H. Brock



192

 

 

CONTENTS
VOL. XLIII
No. 1 – March 1996

Articles

Page

Constructing Symbolic Spaces: Chemical Molecules in the Académie des Sciences. By Mi Gyung Kim


1

Colloids and Quantification: The Ultracentrifuge and its Transformation of Colloid Chemistry. By Andrew Ede


32

Chemical Librarianship: A Kind of ‘Women’s Work’ in America. By Margaret Rossiter


46

Essay Review: A Social History of Truth. Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. By Stephen Shapin. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1994. Rev. by P. Laszlo



59

Reviews of Books

 

Protein and Energy. A Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition. By Kenneth J. Carpenter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by H. Kamminga



60

Berthold Schwarz. Chemie und Waffentechnik im 15.Jahrhundert. By Gerald W. Kramer. Munich. Deutsches Museum, 1995. Rev. by R.W. Soukup


61

Changing Tools. Case Studies in the History of Scientific Methodology. By Márta Fehér. Budapest. Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995. Rev. by D.M. Knight


62

Access to Western Esotericism. By Antoine Faivre. Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press, 1994. Rev. by N. Goodrick-Clarke


63

 

No. 2 – July 1996

Articles

 

Paracelsus, Religion and Dissent: The Case of Philipp Homagius and Georg Zimmermann. By Bruce T. Moran


65

The Influence of the Central Nitre Theory of Michael Sendivogius on the Chemical Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century. By Zbigniew Szydlo


80

Essay Review: The Jewish Alchemists, A History and Source Book. By Raphael Patai. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1994. Rev. by P.M. Rattansi


99

Reviews of Books

 

The Diffident Naturalist. Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment. By Rose-Mary Sargent. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1995. Rev. by M.B. Hall



101

Historia de las Cátedras de Quimica y Mineralogia de Bergara a finales del siglo XVIII. By Inés Pellón and Ramon Gago. Bergara. Berarako Udala, 1994. Rev. by Amorim Costa



101

Bibliotheca Lavoiseriana. The Catalogue of the Library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. By Marco Beretta. Firenze. Leo S. Olschki, 1995. Rev by W.A. Smeaton



102

A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution. Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and Richard Kirwan, 1782-1802. Ed. by Emmanuel Grison, Michelle Goupil and Patrice Bret. Berkeley, CA. Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1994. Rev. by F. Greenaway





103

Libres Propos sur l’histoire des sciences. By François Russo. Paris. Bibliothèque Scientifique Albert Blanchard, 1995. Rev. by M. Crosland


104

The Rise of Early Modern Science. Islam, China and the West. By Toby E. Huff. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Rev. by A.G. Keller


105

Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800. By J.L. Heilbron. Berkeley, CA. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. Supplement to vol. 24, Part 1, 1993. Rev. by C. Smith



106

Paradigmenwechsel und Generationenkonflikt. Eine Fallstudie zur Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen: die revolution der Chemie des späten 18.Jahrhundert. By Hans-Georg Schneider. Frankfurt. Peter Lang, 1992. Rev. by W.H. Brock




107

Acquired Taste. The French Origins of Modern Cooking. By T. Sarah Peterson. Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 1994. Rev. by M.J. Freeman


108

Coordination Chemistry. A Century of Progress. Ed. by George B. Kauffman. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1994. Rev. by J. Burgess


109

Drugs and Narcotics in History. Ed. by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Rev. by M.P. Earles


110

Optics in the Age of Euler. Conceptions of the Nature of Light, 1700-1795. By Caspar Hakfoort. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Rev. by M.A. Sutton



111

Robert Boyle by Himself and his Friends, with a fragment of William Wotton’s lost Life of Boyle. Ed. with an intro by Michael Hunter. London. William Pickering, 1994. Rev. by D. Thorburn Burns



111

Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation. Studies in Intellectual Communication. Ed. by Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Rev. by G. Rees



112

Studia Arnaldiana, Trabajos en torno a la obra médica de Arnau de Vilanova. By Juan A. Paniagua. Barcelona. Fundación Uriach 1838, 1995. Rev. by David Gentilcore



113

Adam Haslmayr. Der erste Verkünder der Manifeste der Rosenkreuzer. By Carlos Gilly. Pimander: Texts and Studies published by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, 5. Amsterdam. In de Pelikaan, 1994.

Cimelia Rhodostaurotica. Die Rosenkreuzer im Spiegel der zwischen 1610 und 1660 entstandenen Handschriften und Drucke. Ed. by Carlos Gilly. Austellung der Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Amsterdam. In de Pelikaan, 1995. Rev. by H. Hotson






114

Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939. Ed. by Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press/ Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1995. Rev. by G.K. Roberts



116

The Eternal Hermes. From Greek God to Alchemical Magus. By Antoine Faivre. Grand Rapids, MI. Phanes Press, 1995. Rev. by N. Goodrick-Clarke


117

Die Gerätschaft der chymischen Kunst. Der Traktat "Die Sceuastica Artis" des Andreas Libavius von 1606. By Bettina Meitzner. Stuttgart. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. Rev. by R.W. Soukup



118

Gehennical Fire. The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution. By William R. Newman. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 1994. Rev. by A. Clericuzio



118

Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Chemie (1789). Ed. by Rudiger Stoltz, Peter Lange and Rita Schwertner. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1993.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Chemie nach der Abschrift von Arthur Schopenhauer (1811/12). Ed. by Brita Engel. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1993.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Chemie nach der Abschrift von Stephan Friedrich Barez (1807/08). Ed. by Brita Engel. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1994.

Von der Phlogistik zür modernen Chemie. Symposium aus Anlass des 250. Geburtstages von Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Dr Michael Engel, 1994. Rev. by W.A. Campbell












120

Lavoisier in European Context. Negotiating a New Language for Chemistry. Ed. by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Ferdinando Abbri. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1995. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton



121

Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro 1868-1872. Ed. by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Quaderni N.4. Palermo. Facultà di Scienza, Università di Palermo, 1994. Rev. by C. Kounelis



122

Thinking about Matter. Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy. By John Hedley Brooke. Aldershot. Variorum, 1995. Rev. by M.G. Kim


123

Historic Scientific Instruments in Denmark. By Hemming Andersen. Copenhagen. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1995. Rev. by R. Anderson



124

Cultures of Natural History. Ed. by N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by D.M. Knight


125

The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940. Ed. by Harmke Kamminga and Andrew Cunningham. Amsterdam. Clio Medica, Rodopi, 1995. Rev. by J. O’Hara-May



126

Adventures of a Chemist Collector. By Alfred Bader. London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. Rev. by K. Schofield


127

 

No. 3 – November 1996

Articles

 

Joseph Priestley’s American Defense of Phlogiston Reconsidered. By Michael F. Conlin


129

William Odling: ‘Interpreter and Liaison-Officer’ Advocate of a New System of Chemistry. By Susie Fisher


146

Studies in the History of Animal Chemistry and its Relation to Physiology. By Noel G. Coley


164

Note: An Error in Dating. By Michael Stanley

188

Reviews of Books

 

To See the Obvious. By Arthur J. Birch. Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. The American Chemical Society, 1995. Rev. by I.D. Rae


189

The Development of Plastics. Ed. by S.T.I. Mossman and P.J.T. Morris. Cambridge. Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994. Rev. by T. Macnamara


190

Qu’est-ce que l’Alchimie? By Pierre Laszlo. Paris. Hachette, 1996. Rev. by A.G. Debus


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CONTENTS
VOL. XLIV
No. 1 – March 1997

Articles

Page

Public Lectures in Chemistry in Russia, 1750-1860 by Nathan M Brooks

1

The Introduction of Aniline Dyes to Paper Printing and Queen Victoria’s Postage Stamps by Tony Travis and Carsten Reinhardt


11

The Chemical Philosophy of Theodore W. Richards by Hannah Gay

19

In Appreciation: Trevor I. Williams (1921-1996); Margaret Mary Haslam (1898-1995)


39

Reviews of Books

 

Aus dem Leben des Chemikers Julius Lothar Meyer. By Günther Schwanicke. (Vareler Heimathefte 8). Varel. Heimatverein Varel eV, 1995. Rev. by P. Munday



41

Die Schöpfung im Reagenzglas. Eine Geschichte der Basler Chemie (1850-1920). By Tobias Straumann. Basel. Helbing & Lichtenbahn Verlag, 1995. Rev. by W. Wetzel



41

Istoriià Otkritiià Elementov Metodami Spektral’nogo Analiza (The History of Chemical Elements Discovered by the Method of Spectral Analysis). By Vadim Petrovich Mel’nikov. Moscow. Nauka, 1995. Rev. by G.B. Kaufmann



42

Chemical Kinetics and Chain Reactions: Historical Aspects. By V. A. Kritsman, G. E. Zaikov and N. M. Emanuel. Commack, NY. Nova Science Publishers, 1994. Rev. by G.B. Kaufmann



43

The Chemistry of the Atmosphere – Oxidants and Oxidation in the Earth’s Atmosphere. 7th BOC Priestley Conference. Ed. by A. R. Bandy. Cambridge. Royal Society of Chemistry, 1995. Rev. by J. Hudson



44

Fifty Years of Free Radicals. By Chevres Walling. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1995. Rev. by C.A. Russell


45

Science for All. Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. By William H Brock. Aldershot, Hants. VARIORUM, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1996. Rev. by J.B. Morrell



45

L’atomo fantasma. Genesi storici dell’ipotesi di Avogadro. By Marco Ciardi. Firenze. Olschki, 1995. Rev. by L. Cerruti


46

Linus Pauling. A Life in Science and Politics. By Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel. New York, NY. Basic Books, 1995. Rev. by W.H. Brock


48

Appunti Sull’Industria Chimici Dai Viaggi in Inghilterra del 1851 e del 1862. By Raffaele Piria and Ed. by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Quaderno N.6. Palermo. Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Palermo, 1995. Rev. by N.G. Coley




49

Paracelso e la tradizone paracelsiana. By Allen G. Debus. Naples. La Citta del Sole, 1996. Rev. by D. Gentilcore


50

Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy. Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain. By Michael Hunter. Woodbridge, Suffolk. Boydell and Brewer, 1995. Rev. by S. Pumfrey



50

André-Marie Ampère. Enlightenment and Electrodynamics. By James R. Hofmann. Cambridge Science Biography Series. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by C.L. Dowland-Pillinger



51

Telling Lives in Science. Essays on Scientific Biography. Ed. by Michael Shortland and Richard Yeo. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by M.A. Sutton



52

 

No. 2 – July 1997

Articles

 

Studies on the Chemistry of Atmospheric Deposition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Fabio Decet and Rosario Mosello


57

Before and after the Bomb – Some Literary Speculations on the use of the Atomic Bomb by Robert Ward


85

Essay Review: Edward Frankland. Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England. By Colin A. Russell. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by J.H. Brooke



96

Reviews of Books

 

Alchemical Poetry 1575-1700. From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts. Ed. by Robert M. Schuler. New York, NY. Garland Publishing Inc, 1995. Rev. by G. Rees



98

Stanislao Cannizzaro. Scritti di Storia Politica e Chimica. Correspondenza Varia. Ed. by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Quaderno N. 5. Palermo. Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Palermo, 1995. Rev. by C. Kounelis




99

Enough for One Lifetime. Wallace Carrothers, Inventor of Nylon. By Matthew E. Hermes. History of Modern Chemical Sciences Series. Washington D C. American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1996. Rev. by J. Hudson




100

Bibliography on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Valentein Wehefritz and Zoltan Kobats. Munich. K. G. Saur, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock



101

Darke Hierogliphicks. Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration. By Stanton J. Linden. Lexington, KY. The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Rev. by G. Rees



102

A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature. By Robert Boyle. Ed. by Edward B. Davis and Michael Hunter. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by D.M. Knight




103

Grounds of Natural Philosophy. By Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Facsimile of 1668 Edition with Introduction by Colette V. Michael. West Cornwall, CT. Locust Hill Press, 1996. Rev. by M. Hunter



104

L’Etonnant Parcours du Républicain J. H. Hassenfratz (1755-1827). By Emmanuel Grison. Paris. Les Presses de l’Ecole des Mines, 1996. Rev. by M. Crosland



105

Law and Order in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry. By Alistair Duncan. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1996. Rev. by U. Klein


106

The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 3, 1841-1848. Ed. by Frank A.J.L. James. London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1996. Rev. by B. Gee


107

Dire les Choses: Auguste Laurent et la méthode chimique. By Marika Blondel-Megrelis. Paris. Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin and Lyon. Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes Epistémologiques, 1996. Rev. by D.M. Knight



108

Demonstrar ou Manipular? O Laboratório de Quimica Mineral da Escola Politénica de Lisboa (1884-1894). Demonstrate or Manipulate? The Mineral Chemistry Laboratory of the Polytechnic School of Lisbon (1884-1894). Ed. by Ana Luísa Janeira, Maria Elisa Maia and Pilar Pereira. Lisbon. Livraria Escolar Editora, 1996. Rev. by A. da Costa





109

Dr Becker in geheimer Mission an Queen Victoria Hof 1850 bis 1861. By Charlotte Pangels. Hamburg. Jahn & Ernst Verlag, 1996. Rev. by W.H. Brock


109

Episodes from the History of the Rare Earth Elements. Ed. by C.H. Evans. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. Rev. by S.F. Mason


110

Chemical Curiosities. By H.W. Roesky and K. Möckel. Weinheim. VCH, 1996. Rev. by A. Hubbard

111

 

No. 3 – November 1997

Articles

 

Berthollet’s Conception of Chemical Change in Context by Pere Grapí and Mercè Izquierdo


113

Spectrum Analysis: The Priority Claims of Stokes and Kirchhoff by Ian D. Rae

131

Essay Review: ‘ "Just one word..." ... The Historiography of Plastics’. Early Plastics. Perspectives 1850-1950. Ed. by Susan Mossman. London. Leicester University Press/Science Museum, 1997; American Plastic: A Cultural History. By Jeffrey I. Meikle. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press, 1995; From Small Organic Molecules to Large. A Century of Progress. By Herman F. Mark. Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1993. Rev. by P.J.T. Morris







145

Reviews of Books

 

Renaissance and Revolution. Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe. Ed. by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1994 (pbk 1997). Rev. by A.G. Keller




148

Pharmazie und Pharmaziestudium an der Universität Gießen. By Christine Billig. Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Band 67. Stuttgart. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock



150

Fritz Haber. Briefe an Richard Willstätter 1910-1934. Ed. by Petra Werner and Angelika Irmscher. Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der Chemie, Band 6. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel, 1995. Rev. by W.H. Brock




151

Das Rätselkabinett des Doktor Krätz. Weinheim. VCH, 1996. Rev. by G.B. Kaufmann


151

The Alchemical Body. Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. By David Gordon White. Chicago, IL. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Rev. by M. Winder


151

Alector ou le coq. Histoire fabuleuse. By Barthélemy Aneau. Ed. by Marie-Madeleine Fontaine. Geneva. Droz, Textes Littéraires français, 1996. Rev. by A. Saunders



152

The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler. Translated into English with Introduction and Notes by E.J. Aiton (=), A.M. Duncan and J.V. Field. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 209. Philadelphia, PA. American Philosophical Society, 1997. Rev. by A.J. Meadows




153

Gunpowder. The History of an International Technology. Ed. by Brenda J. Buchanan. Bath. Bath University Press, 1996. Rev. by M. Palmer


155

Instrumenti di Chimica. Un Laboratorio del XIX Secolo. By Gabriella Rambaldi. Genoa. Pirella Editore, 1996. Rev. by R. Anderson


156

Ideen und Naturwissenschaft. Wechselwirkungen zwischen Chemie und Philosophie am Beispiel des Justus von Liebig und Moriz Carrière. By Brigette Jaschke. Stuttgart. Chemisches Institut der Universität Stuttgart, 1996. Rev. by W.H. Brock




157

Science, Vine and Wine in Modern France. By Harry W. Paul. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Rev. by R.G. Anderson


158

Wilhelm Ostwald und Walter Nernst in ihren Briefen sowie in denen einiger Zeitgenossen. Ed. by Regine Zott. Berlin. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel, 1995. Rev. by W.H. Brock



159

Sir Christopher Ingold. A Major Prophet of Organic Chemistry. By Kenneth T. Leffek. Victoria, BC. Nova Lion Press, 1996. Rev. by C.A. Russell


159

Stalin’s Captive. Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb. By Nikolaus Riehl and Frederick Seitz. History of Modern Chemical Sciences Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1996. Rev. by A.G. Keller




161

Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the Nineteenth Century. By Wilfred Farrar. Ed. by Richard L. Hills and W.H. Brock. Aldershot, Hants. VARIORUM, 1997. Rev. by J.B. Morrell



162

Uncertain Knowledge. Towards an image of science for the 21st century. By R.G.A. Dolby. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. by N.P. Edwards



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CONTENTS
VOL. XLV
No. 1 – March 1998

Articles

Page

The Chemical Revolution and Pharmacy: A Disciplinary Perspective by Jonathan Simon


1

Pythagorean Theory and Dionysian Practice: The Cultic and Practical Background to Chemical Experimentation in Hellenistic Egypt by C. Anne Wilson


14

Correction by Marianne Winder

33

Reviews of Books

 

The History of the Faraday Society. By Leslie Sutton and Mansel Davies. Rev. by M. Sutton


34

The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy and Mysticism. By Alexander Roob. Rev. by N.G. Coley


35

Bayerische Messing. Franz Matthias Ellmayr’s "Mössing-Werkh AO, 1780". By Claus Priesner. Rev. by P. De Clercq


36

Préhistorie & Histoire de la Thermodynamique Classique (Une historie de la chaleur). By Robert Locqueneux. Rev. by Hasok Chang


37

Scientists since 1660. A Bibliography of Biographies. By Leslie Howsam. Rev. by D.M. Knight


38

August Friedrich Horstmann und die physikalische Chemie. By Alexander Kipnis. Rev. by W.H. Brock


38

Chemie in Österreich. Wurzeln und Entwicklung 100 Jahre Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker 1897-1997. Edited by Peter Markl. Rev. by W.H. Brock


39

Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition. By Roald Hoffmann and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt. Rev. by A.S. Travis


40

Oeuvres de Lavoisier. Correspondence. Volume VI, 1789-1791. Edited by Patrice Bret. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton


41

Nationalismus und Internationale Zusammenarbeit in den Naturwissenschaften. Die Deutsche-Französischen Wissenschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Revolution und Restauration, 1789-1832. By Kai Torsten Kanz. Rev. by Maurice Crosland



42

Science, Culture and Politics in Britain, 1750-1870. By Jack Morrell. Rev. by John Hedley Brooke


43

Short Notices

44

 

No. 2 – July 1998

Articles

 

Mendeleev: Beyond the Periodic Table. Editorial Introduction by Nathan M. Brooks


49

D. I. Mendeleev and Siberia by Beverly S. Almgren

50

Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev and the Emergence of the Modern Russian Petroleum Industry, 1863-1877 by Francis Michael Stackenwalt


67

Mendeleev’s Public Opposition to Spiritualism by Richard E. Rice

85

Making Newtons: Mendeleev, Metrology, and the Chemical Ether by Michael D. Gordin


96

Mendeleev and Metrology by Nathan M. Brooks

116

News and Announcements

129

Reviews of Books

 

The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science. By Peter Harrison. Rev. by Stephen D. Snobelen


130

Antoine Lavoisier – the Next Crucial year or the Sources of his Quantitative Method in Chemistry. By Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Rev. by A.M. Duncan


131

Die Waage des Chemikers. The Chemist’s Balance. By Hans R. Jenemann. Rev. by P. Buchanan


132

Arthur Rudolf Hantsch im Briefwechsel mit Wilhelm Ostwald. Edited by Joachim Stocklöv. Rev. by W.H. Brock


133

Science at Oxford 1914-1939: Transforming an Arts University. By Jack Morrell. Rev. by P.M. Laws


134

Short Notices

135

 

No. 3 – November 1998

Articles

 

Blowpipes and Batteries: Humphry Davy, Edward Daniel Clark, and Experimental Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain by Brian P. Dolan


137

‘Ars Sine Arte:’ Nicholas Lemery and the End of Alchemy in Eighteenth-Century France by John C. Powers


163

News and Announcement

190

Reviews of Books

 

Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper. By William H. Brock. Rev. by C.A. Russell


191

L’Arte de Sole e della Luna. Alchimia e Filosofia nel Medioevo. By Chiara Crisciani and Michela Pereira. Rev. by Antonio Clericuzio


193

The Aspiring Adept. Robert Boyle and his Chemical Quest. By Lawrence Principe. Rev. by Malcolm Oster


193

Archives of the Scientific Revolution. Edited by Michael Hunter. Rev. by Malcolm Oster


194

Operative Chymist [Thomas Morson]. By Anthony Morson. Rev. by M.P. Earles


195

Lavoisier et l’Encyclopédie Méthodique: le Manuscrit des Régisseurs des Poudres et Salpêtre Pour le Dictionnaire de l’Artillerie. By Patrice Bret. Rev. by Maurice Crosland



196

Justus Liebig: Eine Biographie. By Wilhelm Strube with Helga Strube. Rev. by W.H. Brock


197

Chemie in der Schweiz. Geschichte der Forschung und der Industrie. Edited by Thomas Busset, Andrea Rosenbusch and Christian Simon. Rev. by Carsten Reinhardt



198

Eloge du Mixte. Matériaux Nouvaux et Philosophie Ancienne. By Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Rev. by Norma Emerton


198

J. J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron. By E.A. Davis and J.J. Falconer. Rev. by Michael A. Sutton


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CONTENTS
VOL. XLVI
No. 1 – March 1999

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The Rise of Analytical Chemistry and its Consequences for the Development of the German Chemical Profession (1780-1860) by Ernst Homburg


1

Protein Chemists Bypass the Colloid/Macromolecule Debate by Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds


33

Reviews of Books

 

J.J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron. By A.A. Davies and I.J. Falconer. Rev. by Michael Sutton


52

Electron: A Centenary Volume. Ed. by Michael Springford. Rev Isobel Falconer

53

The Diaries of John Dee. Ed. by Edward Fenton. Rev. by John Henry

54

Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist. By Jean-Pierre Poirer; and Lavoisier: la rivoluzione chimica. By Marco Beretta. Rev. by Noel Coley


55

Selected Scientific Works of Hans Christian Ørsted. Ed. And tr. By Karen Jelved, Andrew D. Jackson and Ole Knudsen. Rev. by David Knight


56

Coleridge: Darker Reflections. By Richard Holmes. Rev. by David Knight

57

Women in Chemistry. Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century. By Marlene and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Rev. by Katherine D. Watson



58

The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe 1789-1914. Ed. By David Knight and Helge Kragh. Rev. by A.J. Rocke


59

Inventing Polymer Science. Staudinger, Carothers and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry. By Yasu Furukawa. Rev. by W.H. Brock


60

Private Science, Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences. Ed. by Arnold Thackray. Rev. by Sally M. Horrocks


61

Short Notices

63

 

No. 2 – July 1999

Articles

 

John Dastin’s Alchemical Vision by Wilfred Theisen

65

Phoebus Levene and the Tetranucleotide Structure of Nucleic Acids by Graeme K. Hunter


73

Report of Meeting

104

Reviews of Books

 

Before Big Science. The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics 1800-1940. By Mary Jo Nye. Rev. by Kostas Gavroglu


106

Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749-1827. A Life in Exact Science. By Charles Coulston Gillispie with the collaboration of Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guiness. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James



107

Alchemistisches Gold, Paracelsistische Pharmaka. Laboratoriumstechnik im 16.Jahrhundert. Chemiegeschichte und Archaometrische Untersuchungen am Inventar des Laboratoriums von Oberstockstall/Kirchberg am Wagram. By Rudolf Werner Soukup and Helmut Mayer. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe




108

The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850-1914: Industrial Growth, Pollution and Professionalization. Ed. by Ernst Homburg, Anthony S. Travis and Harm G. Schrotter. Rev. by Sally M. Horrocks



109

Science in the Romantic Era. By David M. Knight. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James

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No. 3 – November 1999

Articles

 

The Cosmogenic Experiments of Robert Fludd: A Translation with Introduction and Commentary by D. Graham Burnett


113

Note on the Date of the Publication of the English Translation of Lavoisier’s Traité Élémentaire de Chymie by John D. Baird


171

Announcement

172

Reviews of Books

 

Journals and History of Science. Ed. by Marco Beretta, Claudio Pogliano and Pietro Redondi. Rev. by W. H. Brock


173

The Science of Energy. A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. By Crosbie Smith. Rev. by Hasok Chang


174

Emblems and Alchemy. Ed. by Alison Adams and Stanton J. Linden. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe


175

Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion. By John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor. Rev. by David Knight


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CONTENTS
VOL. XLVII
No. 1 – March 2000

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Page

Mateu Orfila’s Elémens de Chimie Médicale and the Debate about Medical Applications of Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century France by José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez and Antonio García Belmar



1

Rychard Bostok of Tandridge, Surrey (c.1530-1605), M.P., Paracelsian Propagandist and Friend of John Dee by David Harley


29

Devitalising the Elements: Johann Friedrich John (1782-1847) and the Liberation of Phosphorus and Potassium from a Vital Force by Theodore L. Sourkes


37

Note on the Date of Publication of the English Translation of Lavoisier’s Traité Elémentaire de Chymie by John D. Baird


47

Announcement

48

Reviews of Books

 

Journals and History of Science. Ed. by Marco Beretta, Claudio Pogliano and Pietro Redondi. Biblioteca di Nucius Studi e Testi XXXII. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki. Rev. by W. H. Brock



49

The Science of Energy. A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain. By Crosbie Smith. London and Chicago: The Athlone Press and the University of Chicago Press, 1998. Rev. by Hasok Chang



50

Emblems and Alchemy. Ed. by Alison Adams and Stanton J. Linden. Glasgow Emblem Series, Department of French, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Rev by Lawrence M. Principe



51

Reconstructing Nature: the Engagement of Science and Religion. By John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998. Rev. by David Knight



52

A History of the Society of Apothecaries. By Penelope Hunting. London: Society of Apothecaries, 1998. Rev. by W.H. Brock


53

Trimethius and Magical Theology: a Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe. By Noel L. Brann. State University of New York Press, 1998. Rev. by P.J. Fitzpatrick



54

A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. By Lyndy Abraham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Rev. by Sachiko Kusukawa


55

The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society. By Richard Rudgley. London: British Museum Press, 1998. Rev. by Andreas-Holger Maehle


56

Chemischer Atomismus. Anwendung, Veränderung, Alternativen im deutsch-sprachigen Raum in der zweiten Hälfte des 19.Jahrhunderts. By Britta Görs. Berlin: ERS-Verlag, 1999. Rev. by W.H. Brock



57

The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Volume XII. Science, Tools and Magic. General Editor Julian Raby. Part One: Body and Spirit, Mapping the Universe. By Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith. Part Two: Mundane Worlds. By Emilie Savage-Smith with contributions from Francis Maddison, Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Tim Stanley. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997. Rev. by R.G.W. Anderson







58

A History of Science in the Netherlands: Surveys, Themes and Reference. Ed. by Klaas van Berkel, Albert van Helden and Lodewijk Palm. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1999. Rev. by Trevor Levere



59

Natural Dyestuffs and Industrial Culture in Europe, 1750-1880. Ed. by Robert Fox and Agustí Nieto-Galan. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1999. Rev. by David Knight



60

Lessico Filosofico dei secoli XVII e XVIII Sezione Latina a cura di Marta Fattori. Vol 1, 4 artificiosus - bulla. Coordinamento Eugenio Canone – Giacinta Spinosa. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1999. Rev. by P.J. Fitzpatrick



61

Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939: New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies. Ed. by A.S. Travis, H.G. Schrötter, E. Homburg and P.J.T. Morris. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Rev. by Viviane Quirke




63

Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800. By John Gascoigne. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1998. Rev. by Jack Morrell


64

The Life and Times of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, Gentleman, Scientist and Inventor, 1793-1895. By Dale H. Porter. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, Associated University Presses. Rev. by Ben Marsden



65

Le cas Spencer: religion, science et politique. By Daniel Becquemont and Laurent Mucchielli. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. Rev. by Hannah Gay



66

Short Notices

67

Announcement

70

 

No. 2 – July 2000

Articles

 

A.W. Hauch’s Role in the Introduction of Antiphlogistic Chemistry into Denmark by Anja Skaar Jacobsen


71

Justus von Liebig and his Influence on Clinical Chemistry by Johannes Büttner

96

Announcement

117

Reviews of Books

 

I wish I’d made you angry earlier: essays on science, scientists and humanity. By Max Perutz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Rev. by David Knight


118

 

No. 3 – November 2000

Announcements

119

Articles

 

Ernst Dieffenbach’s Comments on the State of Chemistry in Britain in 1846 by W.H. Brock


121

‘Pillars of the College’: Assistants at the Royal College of Chemistry, 1846-1871 by Hannah Gay


135

The Death of Vitalism and the Birth of Organic Chemistry: Wöhler’s Urea Synthesis and the Disciplinary Identity of Organic Chemistry by Peter Ramberg


170

Reviews of Books

 

Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, part XIII, Mining. By Peter J. Golas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by Hugh S. Torrens



196

Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johan Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer and the Hartlib Circle. By J.T. Young. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Rev. by Sachiko Kusukawa



197

The Great Exhibition. By John R. Davis. Stroud, Glos: Sutton Publishing, 1999. Rev. by Elsbeth Heaman


198

A Chemical History Tour. Picturing Chemistry from Alchemy to Modern Molecular Science. By Arthur Greenberg. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2000. Rev. by Pierre Laszlo



199

John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature. By Deborah E. Harkness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by John Henry



200

Luigi Galvani International Workshop: Proceedings. Ed. by Marco Bresadola and Giuliano Pancaldi. Bologna Studies in History of Science, Vol. 7: Dipartimento di Filosophia, Universita di Bologna, 1999. Rev. by David Knight



201

Disziplin, Profession und Nation: Die Ideologie der Chemie in Frankreich vom Zweiten Kaiserreich bis in die Zwischenkriegzeit. By Ulrike Fell. Deutsch-Französische Kulturbibliothek, Vol. 14. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2000. Rev. by A.J. Rocke




202

China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge. Ed. by Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rev. by Keith Pratt



203

The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851: A Science Revealed through its Collecting. By Simon J. Knell. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Rev. by Jack Morrell

204

Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy. Count Rumford. The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius. By G.I. Brown. Sutton Publishing Ltd.: Phoenix Mill, Thrupp etc. 1999. Rev. by Anna Märker

204

Short Notice

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CONTENTS
VOL. XLVIII
No. 1 – March 2001

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Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the Preparation of the Philosophers' Stone by Paulo Alves Porto

1

Amedeo Avogadro's Concept of the Atom: Some New Remarks by Marco Ciardi

17

The Constant Battery and the Daniell-Becquerel-Grove Controversy by Dawn Owen

25

Reviews of Books

 

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975. By Dwight Atkinson. Lawrence Erlbaum Asssociates: Mahwah, N.J. 1999. Rev. by Jack Meadows

41

La Découverte Scientifique. By Pierre Laszlo. Presses Universitaires de France: Paris. 1999. Rev. by Eric Francoeur

42

Geheimnisse der Alchemie. By Manuel Bachmann and Thomas Hofmeier. Schwabe & Co.: Basel. 1999. Rev. by Marianne Winder

43

Alchemie: Lexicon einer hermetische Wissenschaft. Ed. by Calus Priesner and Karin Figala. C.H. Beck: München. 1998. Rev. by Mike Walton

44

De tribus impostoribus. [By Johann Joachim Müller]. Ed. by Winfried Schröder. Fromann-Holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad. 1999. Rev. by Mike Walton

44

Medicine for the Soul. The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital. By Carole Rawcliffe. Sutton Publishing: Stroud, Gloucestershire. 1999. Rev. by Margaret Harvey

45

Science and Engineering in Ireland in 1798: A Time of Revolution. Edited by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson. Royal Irish Academy: Dublin. 2000. Rev. by David Knight

45

The Correspondence of Michael Faraday. Vol. 4: January 1849 - October 1855. Letters 2146-3032. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. The Institution of Electrical Engineers: London. 1999. Rev. by Joost Mertens

46

Ludwig Boltzmann. The Man who Trusted Atoms. By Carlo Cercignani. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 1998. Rev. by W.H. Brock

48

Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life. By Graeme K. Hunter. Academic Press: San Diego, New York. 2000. Rev. by Noel Coley

48

Techniek in Nederland in de Twintigste Eeuw. Vol. II: Delfstoffen, Energie, Chemie. Edited by J.W. Schot et. al. Walburg Pers: Zutphen (Neth.). 2000. Rev. by Jasper Faber

49

Research tussen Vetkool en Zoetstof. Zestig Jaar DSM Research 1940-2000. Edited by H. Lintsen, with contributions by T. van Helvoort, E. Homburg, E. van Royen, J. Schueler, F. Veraart and P. Vincken. Walburg Pers: Zutphen (Neth.). 2000. Rev. by H. Deelstra

51

Announcement

52

 

No. 2 – July 2001

Articles

 

William Arthur Smeaton An Appreciation

53

Articles

 

Alchemical Reproduction and the Career of Anna Maria Zieglerin by Tara E. Nummedal

56

Marie Meurdrac: Paracelsian Chemist and Feminist by Lucia Tosi

69

Jesuits and Alchemy in the Early Seventeenth Century: Father Johannes Roberti and the Weapon-Salve Controversy by Carlos Ziller Camenietzki

83

The Making of a Calvinist Chemist: Herman Boerhaave, God, Fire and Truth by Rina Knoeff

102

Reviews of Books

 

The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements. By Helen S. Lang. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. Rev. by Gregor Schiemann

112

A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. By Lyndy Abraham. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1998. Rev. by David Knight

113

Cavendish: The Experimental Life. By Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCorm-mach. Bucknell University Press: Cranbury NJ. 1999. Rev. by Ursula Klein

114

Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. By June Z. Fullmer. American Philosophical Society: Philadelphia. 2000. Rev. by Julianne Tuttle

115

Communicating Chemistry. Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939. Edited by Anders Lundgren and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Science History Publications: Canton, MA. 2000. Rev. by W. H. Brock

116

La fine dei privilegi. Scienze fisiche, tecnologia e istituzioni scientifiche sabaude nel Risorgimento. (Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testi XXXIV). By Marco Ciardi. Leo S. Olschki: Firenze. 1999. Rev. by Luisa Dolza

118

De Natuur Voorbij: het begin van de productie van synthetische geneesmiddelen. By Thijs Jan Rinsema. The Author: Meppel. 2000. Rev. by Henk van den Belt

119

Wissenschaft in turbulenter Zeit: Erinnerungen eines Chemikers an die Technische Hochschule München 1933-1953. (Alorgismus: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, 25). By Helmut Behrens. Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften: Munich. 1998. Rev. by Peter Morris

120

Short Notices

122

Announcements

124

 

No. 3 – November 2001

Articles

 

Thomas Philipot and Chemical Theories of the Tides in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne Marie Roos

125

The 'Doctrine of Salts' and Rev. John Walker's Analysis of a Scottish Spa (1749-1761) by M. D. Eddy

137

Woodward, Robinson, and Strychnine: Chemical Structure and Chemists' Challenge by Leo B. Slater

161

Announcement

190

Reviews of Books Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball. By Trevor H. Levere. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, London. 2001. Rev. by Christoph Meinel

191

Sciences of the Earth: Studies in the History of Mineralogy and Geology. By David Oldroyd. Ashgate Variorum: Aldershot. 1998. Rev. by Gordon L. Herries Davies 192 George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591). Edited by Stanton J. Linden. Ashgate: Aldershot, Hants. 2001. Rev. by Peter J. Forshaw

193

Alchemomedizinsche Briefe 1585 bis 1597. By Oswaldus Crollius; edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann and Joachim Telle. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. 1998. Rev. by Tara E. Nummedal

194

Das Problem der Autonomie der Naturwissenschaft bei Galilei. By Matthias Dorn. Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. 2000. Rev. by Gerhard Wiesenfeldt

195

The Alchemy of Light. Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration. By Urszula Szulakowska. Brill: Leiden, Boston, Köln. 2000. Rev. by John Henry

195

Représentations scientifiques et images poétiques en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle. By Margaret Llasera. CNRS Editions: Paris. 1999. Rev. by Alison Shell

197

The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A New Edition of Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth and Other Texts. Edited and introduced by Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge. 2001. Rev. by R. I. McCallum

197

Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science. By Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge. 2000. Rev. by Rina Knoeff

198

Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. By J. R. Harris. Ashgate: Aldershot. 1998. Rev. by Serge Chassagne

199

Stoffwechsel im tierischen Organismus: Historische Studien zu Liebigs 'Thier-Chemie'. Edited by Johannes Büttner and Wilhelm Lewicki. HisChymia Buchverlag: Seesen. 2001. Rev. by W. H. Brock

200

Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry. By Alan J. Rocke. The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), London. 2001. Rev. by Maurice Crosland.

201

Bier, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft in Deutschland, 1800-1914. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Industrialisierungsgeschichte. By Mikulás Teich. Böhlau Verlag: Wien, Köln, Weimar. 2000. Rev. by Ray Anderson

202

Chimie Nouvelle 17 (December 1999). Special Issue on the History of Chemistry in Belgium in the 20th Century. Edited by Hendrik Deelstra and Brigitte van Tiggelen. Société Royale de Chimie: Bruxelles. 1999. Rev. by Ulrike Fell

203

The Coming of Materials Science. By Robert W. Cahn. Pergamon: Amsterdam, London, New York. 2001. Rev. by Susan Mossman

204

Chemicals and Long Term Economic Growth. Edited by Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg. Wiley-Interscience, in conjunction with the Chemical Heritage Foundation: New York. 2001. Rev. by Arjan van Rooij

205

Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health. Edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis and Alexander Scriabine. Chemical Heritage Press: Philadelphia. 1999. Rev. by Florence Charue Duboc

206

Institute of Biology: The First Fifty Years. Edited by Brian J. Ford. Institute of Biology: London. 2000. Rev. by Patricia E. Faasse

207

Chemie achter de dijken. Uitvindingen en uitvinders in de eeuw na Van't Hoff. Edited by Herman van Bekkum and Jan Reedijk. Edita KNAW: Amsterdam. 2001. Rev. by Ernst Homburg

208

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