Grimaux, Edouard

Grimaux, Edouard. Introduction a Vetude de la chimie Theories et notations chimiques. Paris Dunod, 1883. 

Grimaux, Edouard. Lavoisier, 1743-1794, d apres sa correspondance, ses man-uscrits, ses papiers de famille et d autres documents inedits, second edition (Paris ... 

Graham, Thomas (1805-1869), 140 Grimaux, Edouard (1835-1900), 104 Glinskii, Grigorii Nikolaevich ( -1884),... 

Grimaux, Edouard, Introduction d 1 etude de la chimie, theories et notations chimiques premieres lemons du cours professed I Ecole poly technique,Dunod, Paris, 1883. 

Quoted in Edouard Grimaux, Introduction a I etude de la chimie, 40. However, it is important to note that correctness of systems using conventions can be demonstrated, e.g., water is H20, not HO. 

But what is the meaning of this edifice It was easy to deny that constitutional formulas in two dimensions represented chemical "reality." After all, molecules could hardly exist in just two dimensions.93 The French school of chemistry was clear on this point, beginning with Laurent, who wrote, "The formula represents the functions of the compound, "94 a point of view shared by Wurtz and Edouard Grimaux. Wurtz claimed that "these formulas. . . do not give any indication on the form of the molecule in space." 95 Similarly,... 

Lavoisier in His Laboratory. Experiments on the respiration of a man doing work. Reduced facsimile of a drawing by Mme. Lavoisier. She is shown at the right preparing a record of the experiment. This illustration appeared in the biography of Lavoisier by Edouard Grimaux (Paris, 1888). 

But there is no question that in the Societe chimique Wurtz had helped to create an important new organization with many allies in leadership positions, and an editorial platform from which to broadcast his views. No fewer than nine students of Wurtz became presidents of the Societe chimique - Philippe de Clermont, Charles Friedel (three times), Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, Edmond Willm, Armand Gautier (three times), Edouard Grimaux (three times), Joseph LeBel, Maurice Hanriot (twice) and Alphonse Combes and the society s editorial board was generally packed with members of his circle." ... 

Turning our attention to the small but significant group of authors who adopted Mendeleev s views, we will focus on two leading figures Adolphe Wurtz, a professor at the Paris Medicine Faculty, and Edouard Grimaux, a professor at the Ecole polytechnique. Why did they care for Mendeleev s classification and how did they appropriate it to their own projects ... 

While Wurtz only used the periodic classification in the service of the atomic theory, his former students and disciples were the first to utilize it for chemistry teaching. Edouard Grimaux (1835-1900), Armand Gautier (1837-1920), Edmond Willm (1833-1910) and Maurice Hanriot (1854-1933), who supported Wurtz s atomic views, made all possible efforts in the 1880s to introduce it in the French educational system, both in high schools and universities. Even more than Wurtz, Grimaux emphasized the relation of mutual reinforcement between the atomic theory and the periodic classification. 

Edouard Grimaux, Introduction a Vitude de la chimie, theories et notations chi-miques premiires legons du cours professed 1 Ecote polytechnique [An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry, Theories and Chemical Notations First Lessons of the Courses, taught in the EcolePolytechnique], Paris, Dunod, 1883, p. 117. 

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