Brougham, Lord

Brougham, Lord, (i) Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III (in Works, London and Glasgow, 1855, 1872). 

Forbes to William Whewell, 29 October 1848, Whewell Papers, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, Add. Ms. a. 204/84. In this letter Forbes identified Henry, Lord Brougham, among whose many roles was as an advocate of Watt in the water controversy) as the very beau-ideal of Macaulay s 19th Century man) (See Miller, Discovering Water, p. 256.)... 

Lord Brougham said the science of Electro-Chemistry.. . arose out of Davy s discoveries, and he is entitled to be regarded as its founder , and Berzelius calls this Bakerian Lecture un rapport qui doit 6tre rang6 parmi les meilleurs m6moires dont on ait jamais enrichi la th orie de la chimie . 

Lord Brougham says that, after Davy s lecture in 1806 I can well remember that we expected soon to find the fixed alkalies and even the alka-... 

The controversy began effectively with statements made in 1834 in his eloge of James Watt written for the Paris Academy by D. F. Arago, who had read the published memoirs and Watt s correspondence of 1782-84. A summary of the controversy published anonymously in 1848 was, according to Wilson, written by Lord Jeffrey. Lord Brougham intervened in favour of Watt. For the present, Cavendish and Watt only will be considered, the much easier question of Lavoisier s claims being dealt with later (see p. 436). 

James Watt junr, asserted that Watt had the hypothesis of the composition of water in mind before December 1782, but Watt s letter of 26 March 1783, that Priestley s experiment (admittedly made as a repetition of Cavendish s) was new to him , suggests that Watt had not formulated his hypothesis before Cavendish had told Priestley of his results. Lord Brougham suggested... 

Lord Brougham pointed out that de Morveau in these articles (1777) does not mention Cavendish s work on hydrogen (1766), Rutherford s on nitrogen (1772), Priestley s on oxygen (1775), or Scheele s on chlorine (1774), nor the theory of combustion in Lavoisier s Opuscules (1774). 

Lord Brougham, who attended one of Black s last lecture courses, described in his memoirs how Black s experiments were often like Franklin s, performed with the simplest apparatus.. .. 1 remember his pouring fixed air from a... 

Landriani, Dissertation de la chaleur latent, in Ohs. Phys. 1785, xxvi, 88-100, 197-207 (histor.) Black, Lectures, 1803, I, xxxviii, 116, 125, 137, 157 Black, letter to Watt, in Muir-head, Correspondence of James Watt, 1846, xxiii Robison, in Black, Lectures, I, xlii, xlv, 503 Thomson, (2), 1817, i, 107 Harcourt, B.A. Rep., 1839,46 Lord Brougham, Works, 1872, i 12 Clerke, DNB, 1908, ii, 572 Knott, in Edinburgh s Place in Scientific Progress (Brit. Assoc.), 1921, 9 McKie and Heathcote, The Discovery of Specific and Latent Heats, 1935, 11,31. 

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