Donovan, Arthur

Donovan, Arthur. Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Doctrines and Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 1975. 

Donovan, Arthur. Antione Lavoisier. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1996. This book isn t as lively as the Poirier biography below, but it is a solid account of Lavoisier s life. 

Donovan, Arthur. Antoine Lavoisier Science, Administration and Revolution. New York Cambridge University Press, 1993. 

Donovan, Arthur. James Hutton, Joseph Black and the Chemical Theory of Heat. Ambix 25, 1978, 176-190. 

Donovan, Arthur. Scottish Responses to the New Chemistry of Lavoisier. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 9, 1979, 237-249. 

Donovan, Arthur, ed. The Chemical Revolution Essays in Reinterpretation, Osiris [2] 4, 1988. 

Donovan, Arthur. The Chemical Revolution and the Enlightenment—And a Proposal for the Study of Scientific Change. In Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. P. Jones (Edinburgh John Donald, 1988). 

Donovan, Arthur. Lavoisier as Chemist and Experimental Physicist A Reply to Perrin. Isis 81, 1990, T70-T71. 

Donovan, Arthur. Newton and Lavoisier—From Chemistry as a Branch of Natural Philosophy to Chemistry as a Positive Science. In Action and Reaction, ed. P. Theerman and A. Seeff (University of Delaware Press, 1993). 

Donovan, Arthur. 1996. Antoine Lavoisier—Science, Administration, and Revolution. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford University of California Press, 1990). Also see articles by C. E. Perrin, Arthur Donovan, and Evan Melhado in the "Critiques and Contentions" section, Isis 81 (1990) 259276. 

While Lavoisier s role in the establishment of a physics section is significant, it is made even more intriguing by Arthur Donovan s discovery that Lavoisier actually drew up a proposal for a physics section and a list of nominees in 1766, two years before he was elected to the Academy. Donovan notes that Lavoisier s list of eight nominees included six men whom he likely perceived to be his rivals in upcoming elections to the chemistry section. Was Lavoisier simply devising a method to ensure his own imminent membership in the Academy 32... 

Arthur Donovan, "Antoine Lavoisier, Academician," paper read at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, October 2528, 1990, Seattle. 

On the "chemical philosophy" of the Paracelsian tradition, see Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy Paracelsian Science andMedicine in the 16th and 17th Centuries, 2 vols. (New York Science History Publications, 1977). Also see Arthur Donovan, Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment The Doctrines and Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black (Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 1975). 

Kekule s Benzene Theory and the Appraisal of Scientific Theories." In Scrutinizing Science. Ed. Arthur Donovan et al. Dordrecht Kluwer, 1988. Pp. 4561. 

Many recent publications have focused on the chemical revolution of Lavoisier, providing a much broader context within which this work clearly fits. Perhaps the most important contemporary writer is Frederic Lawrence Holmes, who has published two books on Lavoisier, both based on detailed examination of Lavoisier s laboratory notebooks. These have provided the modern reader with a reliable analysis of Lavoisier s chemical thinking. Accounts of Lavoisier s broader activities have also been given by Arthur Donovan and Jean-Pierre Poirier. ... 

Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life An Exploration of Scien-tific Creativity (Madison University of Wisconsin Press, Antoine Lavoisier The Next Crucial Year (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1998). See also Holmes, Lavoisier s Conceptual Passage, in Arthur Donovan, ed., The Chemical Revolution. Essays in Reinterpretation, Osiris 4 (1988) 82-92. This special issue of Osiris also contains C.E. Perrin, Research Traditions, Lavoisier and the Chemical Revolution, 53-81. 

Arthur Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier (Blackwell, 1993) Jean-Pierre Poirier, Lavoisier (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). For an excellent review of these books, see Evan M. Melhado, Scientific Biography and Scientific Revolution Lavoisier and Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, Isis 87, 1996, 688-694. For a guide to earlier biographies, see Henry Guerlac, Lavoisier and His Biographers, Isis 45, 1954, 51-62. 

C. E. Perrin, Chemistry as a Peer of Physics A Response to Donovan and Melhado on Lavoisier, Isis 81, 1990, 259-270 Arthur Donovan, Lavoisier as Chemist and Experimental Physicist A Reply to Perrin, ibid., 270-272 Evan M. Melhado, On the Historiography of Science A Reply to Perrin, ibid., 273-276 idem, Scientific Biography and Scientific Revolution. ... 

Frederic L. Holmes, The Boundaries of Lavoisier s Chemical Revolution, in Lavoisier et la Revolution chimique, ed. Goupil, 13-14. These two issues have always been confounded in historiography. For a recent example, see Arthur Donovan, Lavoisier and the Origins of Modern Chemistry, Osiris [2] 4, 1988, 214-231. 

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