Lavoisier, Antoine Perrin

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. 

Based on Lavoisier s own statement, Perrin has suggested that Lavoisier was introduced to chemistry by La Planche at the College Mazarin, but Donovan thinks it more likely that he took the course at the Society of Pharmacists C. E. Perrin, The Lavoisier-Bucquet Collaboration A Conjecture, Ambix 36, 1989, 5-40 Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier, 31. 

Sidney J. French, The Chemical Revolution— The Second Phase, Journal of Chemical Education 27, 1950, 83-89 Guerlac, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Perrin, Prelude to Lavoisier s Theory of Calcination Some Observations on mercurius calcinatus per se, Ambix 16, 1969, 140-151 Holmes, Lavoisier, 41-48 Historians differ a great deal in judging the sequence of events here, but Holmes synthesizes various accounts convincingly. 

Science 17, 1984, 31-46 Carleton E. Perrin, Of Theory Shifts and Industrial Innovations The Relations of J. A. C. Chaptal and A. L. Lavoisier, Annals of Science 43, 1986, 511-542 Jean Dhombres, Quelques Reflexions de et sur Chaptal. A propos de la Revolution chimique, in Lavoisier et la Revolution chimique, ed. Goupil Jeff Horn and M. C. Jacob, Jean-Antoine Chaptal and the Cultural Roots of French Industrialization, Technology and Culture 34, 1998, 671-698. 

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