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Black, Joseph, Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, Vol. 2, Mundell... 

Neave, E. W. J., Joseph Black s lectures on the elements of chemistry, Isis,... 

Beddoes and Watt shared a chemical mentor - Joseph Black. Beddoes studied chemistry with Black whilst a medical student in Edinburgh in the early to mid-1780s, and when Beddoes began to lecture in chemistry at Oxford, his approach bore Black s imprint. He sought Black s advice about laboratory technique, and adopted the arrangement of chemical substances wholesale from Black s lectures. He told Black that he was equipped to demonstrate all Lavoisier s key experiments, and that he adopted a version of Lavoisier s chemistry in his own lectures.105 Though in many respects well-equipped, Beddoes did not manage to mimic Black s success as a lecturer. His main problem was a lack of skill in experimental demonstrations.106... 

Lecture, 17 November, 1766 in Blagden MS Notes of Dr Black s Lectures , 1766-7, Wellcome Institute for History of Medicine, as quoted in H. Guerlac, Joseph Black s... 

Black, J., Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry delivered in the University of Edinburgh by the late Joseph Black, M. D. Now Publishedfrom his Manuscripts by John Robison, LLD, 2 vols (Edinburgh William Creech, 1803). 

Joseph Black, Notes from Doctor Black s Lectures on Chemistry 176718, trans. Thomas Cochrane, ed. Douglas McKie (Wilmslow Imperial Chemical Industries, 1966), 26. 

Black s Elements, used Absorbent and Alkaline Earth synonymously (see 2 23). It is not clear whether this was a recalibration added by the book s editor, John Robison. Student notes tend to use the term Absorbent however, these notebooks were often compilations and it is sometimes hard to tell exactly when they were written down. Black usually lectured on absorbents in lectures (circa) 60 to 70. For comparison, see Henry Beaufy (transcriber), Manuscript Copy of Lectures in Chemistry Given by Joseph Black, Professor of Medicine and Chemistry, Edinburgh University, 1766-1799 [c 1771-1775], Volume IV, Aberdeen University Library Special Collections MS 38185. 

Joseph Black was born in Bordeaux, France, the fourth child of parents of Scottish extraction. His father was a native of Belfast engaged in the Bordeaux wine trade his mother was a daughter of an Aberdeen man who had settled in Bordeaux. In all. Black s parents had twelve children. At the age of twelve Black was sent to school in Belfast, and around 1744 proceeded to the University of Glasgow. Black followed the standard curriculum until pressed by his father to choose a profession. He opted for medicine. Black began to study anatomy and chemisti-y. William Cullen had recently inaugurated lectures in chemisti y that were to have a decisive influence on Black s career. Recognizing Black s aptitude, Cullen employed Black as his laboratory assistant. 

Joseph Black, upon completion of his study on magnesia alba, received his medical degree. He published very little after this study. Black taught at universities in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and continued to do solid research, which he presented in his lectures. One area in which he did important work was heat and the latent heat of steam. His work in this area inspired one of his students James Watt to apply Black s ideas in making improvements to the steam engine. 

The next important work upon the gases of the atmosphere was that of Dr. Joseph Black (1728-1799). Black was of Scotch extraction, though his father was bom in Ireland, and himself at Bordeaux, where his father was established as a wine merchant. Black s elementary schooling was at Belfast thereafter he attended the University of Glasgow as a student of medicine. Here he came under the inspiring influence of Dr. William Cullen, a professor of medicine and a lecturer on chemistry. Black was taken by Dr. Cullen as his assistant in chemistry in which capacity he served three years. 

The affinity table caught the imagination of the leading European chemists around the middle of the eighteenth century, no doubt thanks to Rouelle s lectures and Macquer s writings.The increasing complexity in the chemistry of salts also demanded expansion of the table. In England, Joseph Black proposed minor revisions of the table in his... 

During the 1750s, the professors of the University of Edinburgh held that the most basic forms of matter were water, earths, salts, inflammables, and metals.12 During the early 1760s, Joseph Black tentatively added another air (or aer).13 In Edinburgh, the chemistry lectures of Cuhen (1755-1766) and Black (1766-1799) used the terms principles 14 and elements 15 interchangeably to describe these forms. In this essay,... 

Joseph Black, Lectures on the elements of chemistry, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, John Robison, ed., 2 vols. (London and Edinburgh, 1803). 

Joseph Black, lecture notes taken by a student, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, MSS M9. 42 p. 11. 

Although trained as a medical doctor, Joseph Black spent most of his professional career as an instructor in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. His lecture notes were edited by one of his students and published as a textbook in chemistry in 1803, four years after his death. 

Thomas Thomson received his M.D. degree at Edinburgh in 1799, where he was inspired by Joseph Black. Starting in 1800 he lectured on chemistry at Edinburgh and published the first edition of his comprehensive A System of Chemistry in 1802. Thomson visited Dalton in 1804 and enthusiastically adopted his atomic theory. Interestingly, the first published statement of Dalton s theory appeared In the third edition (1807) of Thomson s five-volume chemical treatise. ... 

H. Guerlac, Joseph Black s Work on Heat , in Joseph Black, 1728-1799. A Commemorative Symposium, ed. A. D. C. Simpson, p. 17, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 1982, citing Joseph Black, Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, ed. John Robison, Edinburgh, 1803, v. 1, pp. 157-8. Since it... 

Crosland M (1959) The use of diagrams as ehemical equations in the lecture notes of William Cullen and Joseph Black. Ann Sci 15 75-90... 

Biack, Joseph (1728-99) A Scottish doctor and later professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh for 33 years. Unusually, he lectured in English rather than Latin, which was the normal practice at the time. His lectures involving many experiments were particularly popular and became a fashionable habit of Edinburgh society. James Watt was one of his students, to whom he gave both money and ideas for his research. Black s work was largely on specific and latent heats. He distinguished be tween heat and temperature, found specific heats by the method of mixtures, and obtained the latent heat ofwater as it froze. He founded the first Chemical Society for his students. 

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