Elements of Chemistry

A. L. Lavoisier, La Traite Elementaire de Chimie, Paris, 1789, translated by R. Kerr, Elements of Chemistry, London, 1790 facsimile reprint by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1965,... 

Robinson, J., ed. (1803). Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, 2 vols. Edinburgh W. Creech. 

Lavoisier, A. Elements of Chemistry (translated by Kerr, R.) Dover Mineola, New York, 1965. 

Our goal in this volume, as editors and chemists, has been to bring together researchers who could address the major worldwide environmental problems, which contain some element of chemistry. Although... 

The present account on uranium begins with some of the basic elements of chemistry used in the hydrometallurgy of uranium. Although the inorganic chemistry of uranium, is quite... 

Boerhaave, Herman. Elements of chemistry translated by Timothy Dallowe. London J. J. Pemberton, 1735. 

Josiah P. Cooke, Jr., Elements of Chemical Physics (Boston Little, Brown and Co., 1860) vi. In his textbook section, "Chemical Physics," William Allen Miller treated elasticity, cohesion, adhesion, light, heat, magnetism, static electricity, galvanic electricity, and thermoelectricity. In W. A. Miller, Elements of Chemistry Theoretical and Practical (London John Parker, 1855). 

Antoine L. Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, trans. Robert Kerr (New York Dover reprint, 1965 from 1790 Edinburgh ed., based on 1789 1st ed.) xxxiiixxxiv. Lavoisier named Berthollet, Fourcroy, [De] Laplace, Monge, and "others."... 

Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry [1789], trans. Robert Kerr (Edinburgh William Creech, 1790 Dover reprint ed., 1965) xixxx, xxvi. And see, Antoine Fourcroy, Philosophic chimique. J. A. Deluc notes that Fourcroy s "chemical philosophy" is better understood to mean the "new chemistry" of Lavoisier. See Deluc,... 

Thomas Graham, Elements of Chemistry Including the Application of the Science in the Arts, 2d ed., 2 vols., (London Bailliere, 1850). I 234. 

Edward Turner, Elements of Chemistry, 4th ed. (London Printed for J. Taylor, Bookseller, 1833) viiviii. 

Miller, William Allen. Elements of Chemistry Theoretical and Practical. London John Parker, 1855. 

The text was Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier, who will be discussed in Chapter 6. 

Herman Boerhaave said in his "Elements of Chemistry that Iron, which seems to be the metal whose earth most closely resembles vegetable and animal earth, also has a great deal of affinity with the bodies of... 

In his Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, Dr. Joseph Black made the following statement about the discovery of nitrogen ... 

Since Max Speter (27,41) mentioned that John Mayow in his Trac-tatus Quinque anticipated Lavoisier (28) in die belief that all acids contain oxygen, it is interesting to know that Dr. Rudierford also made the same error. A note by John Robison in his edition of Black s Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry reads as follows ... 

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

The Baron also mentioned A.-L. Lavoisier s Elements of Chemistry, the first Spanish edition of which was published in Mexico. J.-A.-C. 

Boerhaave even stated in his Elements of Chemistry that all die vegetables which have grown on the earth since the beginning of the world to the present, and which have putrefied without bemg reduced to ash by the action of fire, and have been consumed in the course of time, have never yielded a single gram of fixed alkaline salt. On the contrary, they have been dispersed in volatile particles. . (7). 

It is therefore to the vital air [oxygen] of the manganese [pyrolusite], which combines with the marine acid, that the formation of the dephlogisticated marine acid is due. I ought to state that this theory was presented and announced some time ago by M. Lavoisier, and that M. de Fourcroy made use of it in his Elements of Chemistry and Natural History to explain the properties of dephlogisticated marine acid such as they were then known. 

Lavoisier summarized his ideas developed over the previous twenty years in his seminal 1789 book Traite Elementaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry). This work presented his findings on gases and the role of heat in chemical reactions. He explained his oxygen theory and how this theory was superior to phlogiston theory. Lavoisier established the concept of a chemical element as a substance that could not be broken down by chemical means or made from other chemicals. Lavoisier also presented a table of thirty-three elements. The thirty-three elements mistakenly included light and caloric (heat). Lavoisier put forth the modern concept of a chemical reaction, the importance of quantitative measurement, and the principle of conservation of mass. The final part of Lavoisier s book presented chemical methods, a sort of cookbook for performing experiments. 

Lavoisier s Elements of Chemistry synthesized and explained in a coherent manner the chemistry of his day. The work was readily accepted by many as a substantial improvement over the phlogiston theory. Young chemists quickly adopted Lavoisier s ideas and new nomenclature rather than trying to fit their work within a phlogiston framework. Upon reading Lavoisier s book,... 

Lavoisier, Antoine. Elements of Chemistry, with an introduction by Douglas McKie. Translated by Robert Kerr. New York Dover Publications, 1984. 

This is why, perhaps, some people would like to stick with earth, air, I fire, and water. They are not the elements of chemistry, but they say I something resonant about how we interact with the world and a about the effect that matter has on us. 

Lavoisier s Traite de chimie was translated into English by Robert Kerr with the title Elements of Chemistry (Edinburgh, 1790). Quotation from Dover edition (New York, 1965), I. 

A.-F. de Fourcroy, Elements of Chemistry and Natural History, 5th edition with notes by John Thomson, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1798), vol. i, 113-114. 

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