Beretta, Marco

Beretta, Marco. Humanism and chemistry the spread of Georgius Agricola s metallurgical writings. Nuncius 12, no. 1 (1997) 2-47. 

Beretta, Marco. "The role of symbolism from alchemy to chemistry." In Nonverbal communication in science prior to 1900, ed. Renato G. Mazzolini, 279-319. Firenze Olschki, 1993. 

Beretta, Marco. The enlightenment of matter the definition of chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier. Uppsala Studies in the History of Science, no. 15. Canton (MA) Science History Publications, 1993. 

Beretta, Marco. T. O. Bergman and the Definition of Chemistry. Lychnos, 1988, 37-67. 

Beretta, Marco. Torbern Bergman in France An unpublished letter by Lavoisier... 

Beretta, Marco, ed. A New Course of Chemistry LavoisieEs First Chemical... 

Beretta, Marco. Lavoisier as a reader of chemical literature. Revue 48,1995, 71-94. 

Beretta, Marco. Chemical Imagery and the Enlightenment of Matter. In Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment, ed. W. Shea (Science History Publications, 2000). 

Beretta, Marco. Lavoisier and His Last Printed Work the Memoires de physique et de chimie (1805). Annals of Science 58, 2001, 327-356. 

Beretta, Marco. 1997. Humanism and Chemistry The Spread of Georgius Agricola s Metallurgical Writings, Nuncius 12 2-47. 

Beretta, Marco. 1993. The Enlightenment of Matter The Definition of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier. Canton, MA Watson Pubhshing International. 

Marco Beretta has published a profusely illustrated and broadly based account of the chemical revolution in which, while Lavoisier is the centre piece , most of those in the eighteenth century who in any way contributed to the total picture are discussed, including Priestley.187 This is one in a series on the greats of science published by the... 

Guerlac concluded thus because it seemed implausible that Lavoisier managed his law study, a variety of science lectures and the curriculum in philosophy at the College Mazarin all at the same time. Beretta finds it inconclusive since Lavoisier states in the above quote that he had a bon cours de philosophic Guerlac, A Note, 213 and Marco Beretta, A New Course in Chemistry (Firenze L. S. Olschski, 1994), 14-15. 

Lavoisier, Commencement d un traite de Chimie [Lavoisier Dossier 380, archive of Academic des Sciences] transcribed with an introduction in Marco Beretta, A New Course in Chemistry. The manuscript is written in an unknown hand, but with several corrections and additions in the hand of Lavoisier. Having failed to trace the handwriting to any other French scientist, Beretta has concluded that it was dictated by Lavoisier, definitely after 1763 and probably before 1766. 

La Blanche, Plan d un cours de chymie, suivant les principes de Becher, de Boerhave, Sc de Stahl [Bibliotheque nationale, R 5805] transcribed in Marco Beretta, A New Course, 79-91. 

Marco Beretta, Lavoisier as a Reader of Chemical Literature, Revue d histoire des sciences et leurs applicatiom 48, 1995, 71-94, at 74. 

Projet d un memoire sur les differens degres d affinite des acides en exces avec les differentes substances (September 3, 1766) [Lavoisier Dossier 323, archive of Academie des Sciences]. I thank Dr. Marco Beretta for a partially transcribed copy of this manuscript. 

T. H. Levere, Lavoisier s Gasometer and Others Research, Control, and Dissemination, in Lavoisier in Perspective, ed. Marco Beretta (Munich Deutsches Museum, 2005), 53-67. 

Condillac, Lavoisier and Nomenclature Reform Contrary to the historiography of the crucial year , which focused on Lavoisier s early training in experimental physics and Rouellian chemistry, the historians of science William Albury, Marco Beretta and Trevor Levere located the core of the Chemical Revolution in the epistemological and linguistic principles underlying the Methode de Nomenclature Chimique, published in 1787, and the Traite Elementaire de Chimie, which appeared two years later. Influenced by Crosland s... 

FIGURE 213. Lavoisier was the first to demonstrate that respiration is in fact combustion. This is a drawing by Madame Lavoisier (depicted at right) of her husband conducting respiration experiments on his assistant Armand Seguin, completely enveloped in a mbber suit. Seguin survived and eventually became extremely wealthy as an army contractor. (Courtesy Professor Marco Beretta.)... 

FIGURE 214. Another drawing of Lavoisier s respiration studies on his assistant Seguin-the man in the rubber suit. Madame Lavoisier depicts herself drawing this scene. (Courtesy Professor Marco Beretta.)... 

I am grateful to Professor Marco Beretta for supplying these images. 

On Dandolo s translation, see Ferdinando Abbri, Lavoisier e Dandolo. Le edizioni ital-iane del Traite elementaire de chimie [Lavoisier and Dandolo. The Italian editions of the Traite elementaire de chimie ], Annali dell Istituto di filosofia dell Universitd di Firenze, 6 (1984) 163-182 Marco Beretta, Italian translations of the Mithode de nomenclature chimique and the Traite elementaire de chimie The case of Vincenzo Dandolo in Lavoisier in the European Context, ed. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Ferdinando Abbri (Canton, Mass. History of Science Publications, 1995), 225-248. 

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