Daumas, Maurice

Daumas, Maurice. Les Conceptions de Lavoisier sur les Affinites chimiques et la Constitution de la Matiere. Thales (1949-1950), 69-80. 

Daumas, Maurice. Les appareils d experimentation de Lavoisier. Chymia 3, 1950, 45-62. 

Daumas, Maurice. L elaboration du Traite de Chimie de Lavoisier. Archives 12, 1950, 570-590. 

Daumas, Maurice. Les Instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Presses universitaires de France, 1953). English edition Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Praeger, 1953). 

Daumas, Maurice. Lavoisier, Theoricien et experimentateur (Presses Universitaires de France, 1955). 

Daumas, Maurice, and Denis Duveen. Lavoisier s Relatively Unknown Large-Scale Decomposition and Synthesis of Water, February 27 and 28, 1785. Chymia 5, 1959, 113-129. 

Daumas, Maurice (1946) L acte chimique. Essai sur I histoire de la philosophie chimique, Bruxelles, editions du Sablon. 

Daumas, Maurice (1955) Lavoisier, theoricien et experimentateur, Paris, PUF. 

Daumas, Maurice and D. I. Duveen (1959) Lavoiser s Relatively Unknown Large Scale Experiment ofDecomposition and Synthesis of Water. February 27-28, 1785 Chymia, 5, 111-129. 

Maurice Daumas. Histoire Generate des Techniques, vol. 2. Paris Quadrige/Presses Universitaires de France, 1996 edition of 1964 book. Source for vertical integration of the chemical industry. 

Maurice Daumas, Lavoisier, Theoricien et experimentateur (Presses universi-taires de France, 1955) Henry Guerlac, Lavoisier—The Crucial Year (Cornell University Press, 1961) F. L. Holmes, Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985) and Antoine Lavoisier—The Next Crucial Year (Princeton University Press, 1998). For a guide to earlier works, see W. A. Smeaton, New Light on Lavoisier The Research of the Last Ten years, History of Science 2, 1963, 52-69. 

While historians have attributed Lavoisier s penchant for precision instruments to his inclinations as an experimental physicist, the instruments of experimental physics such as the thermometer and the barometer were not as precise as the astronomical instruments Maurice Daumas, Les Instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Presses universitaires de France, 1953), translated as Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Praeger, 1953). The precision of the sector was a key issue, for example, in the debate between Cassini and Maupertuis Mary Terrall, Representing the Earth s Shape, Isis 83, 1992, 218-237. 

Historians have paid due attention to Lavoisier s collaboration with Laplace Henry Guerlac, Chemistry as a Branch of Physics Laplace s Collaboration with Laviosier, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 7, 1976, 193-276 Luis M. R. Saraiva, Laplace, Lavoisier and the Quantification of Heat, Physis 34, 1997, 99-137 Charles Coulston Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 (Princeton University Press, 1997), 101-108. Lavoisier s work on metallic precipitation has been largely ignored. (For an exception, see Maurice Daumas, Les conceptions de Lavoisier sur les affinites chimiques et la constitutoin de la matiere, Thales, 1949-50, 69-80.)... 

Maurice Daumas and Denis Duveen, Lavoisier s Relatively Unknown Large-Scale Decomposition and Synthesis of Water, February 27 and 28,1785, Chymia 5,1959,113-129 Jan Golinski, Precision Instruments and the Demonstrative Order of Proof in Lavoisier s Chemistry, Osiris 9, 1994, 30-47 idem, The Nicety of Experiment Precision of Measurement and Precision of Reasoning in Late Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, in The Values of Precision, ed. Wise (Princeton University Press, 1995). 

Cours de chimie experimental rangee suivant I ordre naturel des idees [Dossier Lavoisier 1260, archive of Academie des Sciences] Maurice Daumas, L elaboration du Traite de Chimie de Lavoisier, Archives intemationale d histoire des sciences 12, 1950, 570-590. 

This synthesis was not, however, conclusive even for those who performed it. As the historian Maurice Daumas has pointed out, assertions about the purity of the water relied on purely qualitative results. Lavoisier used an axiom drawn from geometry to make up for the lack of quantitative data ... 

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