Bensaude-Vincent

I would like to thank Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jed Z. Buchwald, Otto T. Ben-fey, William H. Brock, Charles C. Gillispie, Jean Pierre Poirier, and J. B. Shank for reading this chapter and discussing it with me. Thanks are also due Susanne Hahn for her help during my visit to the Hoechst Corporate History Archives, Frankfurt, Germany. 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Lavoisier Une Revolution Scientifique. Elements d Histoire des Sciences. Michel Serres, ed. Paris Larousse-Bordas, 1997, pp. 541-573. 

Lavoisier. Isis. 87 (Sept. 1996) 481-499. Source for Lavoisier. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. A History of Chemistry. Cambridge MA Harvard University Press, 1996. Source for Leblanc as founder of industrial chemistry and for history of natural alkalis. 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers. A History of Chemistry. Translated by Deborah van Dam. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1996. 

On Lavoisier, see Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, "A Founder Myth in the History of Science The Lavoisier Case," 5378, in Loren Graham et al., eds., Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook VII (Dordrecht Reidel, 1983). 

On chemistry courses in nineteenth-century France, see Bensaude-Vincent, "A Founder Myth in the History of Science " n. 3, 7677. 

See Bensaude-Vincent s analysis of Lavoisier s views on the need to reorganize the teaching of chemistry, including previously unpublished texts, in "A View of the Chemical Revolution through Contemporary Textbooks Lavoisier, Fourcroy and Chaptal," BJHS 23 (1990) 435460. 

On this theme, see Bensaude-Vincent, "A View of the Chemical Revolution."... 

Isabelle Stengers and Judith Schlanger, Les concepts scientifiques Invention etpouvoir (Paris Editions La Decouverte, 1988) and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, A propos de methode de nomenclature chimique Esquisse historique suivie du texte de 1787 (Paris Centre de Documentation Sciences Humaines, 1983). 

Popularizing chemistry finds many obstacles. The systematization of the names of substances is particularly threatening (Bensaude-Vincent 2001), in a new kind of Esperanto that no one can master at the speed of the speech. Luckily, trivial names for natural products have never been dismissed. Admittedly, digitalization requires systematization, but natural product retrieval is best done through the very lai uage of chemistry, that is the structural formula. 

Bensaude-Vincent, B. (2001) Chemical analysis. Language reform played an integral part in thedevelopmait of a discipline. Nature, 410, 415. 

For a full account of the new nomenclature in different nations, see Lavoisier in European Context Negotiating a New language for Chemistry, ed. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Ferdinandro Abbri (Canton, Massachusetts Science History, 1995). 

B. Bensaude-Vincent and I. Stengers, Histoire de la chimie, Editions la Decouverte, Paris, 1993 trans. by D. van Dam, Harvard Univiversity Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997. 

F. Abbri and B. Bensaude-Vincent, eds, Lavoisier in European Context Negotiating a New Language for Chemistry, Science History Publications, Canton, MA, 1995. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, Lavoisier, memoires d un revolution, Flammarion, Paris, 1993. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, Helene Metzger s La chimie A popular treatise , Hist. Sci., 1987, 25, 71-84. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, Lavoisier une revolution scientifique in Elements d histoire des sciences, ed. M. Serres, Bordas, Paris, 1989, pp. 363-385. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, Lavoisier et la revolution chimique , Recherche, 1994, 25, 539-544. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, Between history and memory centennial and bicentennial images of Lavoisier , Isis, 1996, 87, 481-499. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, Methode de Nomenclature Chimique [Par] L. B. Guyton de Morveau A. L. Lavoisier, C. L. Berthollet et A. F. de Fourcroy, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1994. 

B. Bensaude-Vincent, The balance between chemistry and politics , Eighteenth Cent. Theory Interpr., 1992, 33, 217-237. 

For chemistry see Anders Lundgren, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (eds.), Communicating Chemistry. Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939 (Canton Science History Publications, 2000). 

In her chapter, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent traces the evolution of materials science in three different ways. In her opening section, Bensaude-Vincent shows how the traditional discipline of metallurgy was changed by its contacts with the emerging science of solid-state physics and also X-ray crystallography. One can see parallels with the development of polymer science outlined in Furukawa s chapter. 

Bensaude-Vincent traces the evolution of materials science largely through technological developments. There are alternative ways to explore this process, for... 

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