Anders Lundgren

Lundgren, Anders. "The Changing Role of Numbers in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry." In The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. J. L. Heilbron, Robin Rider, Tore Frangsmyr. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford University of California Press, 1990. Pp. 245266. 

Lundgren, Anders. The New Chemistry in Sweden The Debate That Wasn t. ... 

The authors would like to thank their colleagues and collaborators Mikael Borg, Jeppe Burchhardt, Jochen Haase, Spren Hoffmann, Edvin Lundgren, Anders Mikkelsen, Wolfgang Moritz, Martin Nielsen, Ralf Nyholm, Jakob Petersen, Matthias Scheffler, and Cathy Stampfl for their contributions to the work reviewed here and for many stimulating discussions. Support of this work by the Danish and Swedish Natural Science Research Councils is gratefully acknowledged. 

Lundgren, Anders is associate professor (docent) at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden, and has been working on history of science, particularly history of chemistry. He has studied eighteenth-century chemistry with an emphasis on the chemieal revolution, twentieth-century chemistry with emphasis on the rise of new disciplines, and the story of pharmaceuticals. He is for the moment working with the development of the chemical industry during the end of the nineteenth century, especially the relation between sdenee and technology, and with the role of smell and taste in the development of science. 

A. Lundgren, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, the Antiphlogistic Chemistry and the Swedish Scene, Berzelius Society, Serie no 5, The Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, ISSN 1103-5129,1997 Larry D. Cunningham, Tantalum chapter in Mineral Commodity Summaries 2003, uses, Reston, VA, pp. 168-169 and Columbium (Niobium) and Tantalum chapter in Minerals Yearbook, 2001, Vol. I, Metals and Minerals, USGS, Re-... 

Henry Guerlac, Evan Melhado, Anders Lundgren, and others have argued the thesis that Lavoisier s importance for chemistry lay in bringing into it the aims and methods of physics. Historians of science frequently have referred to the "physicalist" tradition in chemistry, 14 and Maurice Crosland has... 

For chemistry see Anders Lundgren, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (eds.), Communicating Chemistry. Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939 (Canton Science History Publications, 2000). 

Anders Lundgren, The development of the chemical industry in Sweden and the contribution of academic chemistry after 1900, in this volume. 

Anders Lundgren, Den svenska kemin runt sekelskiftet, Kemia - Kemi, 18, no. 11-12 (1991), 1019-1023. 

Anders Lundgren is lecturer in the history of ideas and science at Uppsala University. He has a general interest in the history of science since 1700, and a special interest in the history of chemistry. He has published on the Chemical Revolution, and on the relation between mining and chemistry since the 18th century. Recently he has become interested in the rise of biochemistry as an independent discipline in Sweden, as well as the science-technology relationship, with special reference to chemistry. His publications include Everyday Science. A History ofXylocaine (in Swedish, 1995). 

Anders Lundgren, Berzelius and the chemical atomic theory (in Swedish with a summary in English), dissertation at Uppsala University, 1979... 

Some of what has already appeared in a few of our published works has been expanded and reworked in this book. In chapters 1 and 2, we drew from our papers "The Americans, the Germans and the Beginnings of Quantum Chemistry The Confluence of Diverging Traditions" (Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 1994,-25 47-110) "One Face or Many The Role of Textbooks in Building The New Discipline of Quantum Chemistry" (in Anders Lundgren, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, eds. Communicating Chemistry. Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939, Science History Publications, 2000, pp. 415-449) and "In Between Words G.N. Lewis, the Shared Pair Bond and Its Multifarious Contexts" (Journal of Computational Quantum Chemistry 2007 28 62-72). 

Gavroglu and Simoes, 2000] K. Gavroglu and A. Simoes. One Face or Many The Role of Textbooks in Building the New Discipline of Quantum Chemistry , in Anders Lundgren and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (eds.) Communicating Chemistry Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789-1939 Canton, MA Science History Publications 415-450, 2000. 

Part IV deals with the northern European periphery, including the three Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The chapters in this part describe indifference to the periodic system, much as in France, but for different reasons. Chapter 7 (by Anders Lundgren) explains that a long-standing practical and atheoretical tradition of Swedish chemistry was unaffected by the periodic system, with many new elements discovered by Swedish chemists independently of the system. Because Swedish chemists at the time had little interest in theory, they did not require any explanation of the periodicity of the elements. Nor was the periodic system used as a pedagogical tool for textbooks. Lundgren contends that Mendeleev s periodic system might not have been as important as historians of chemistry have traditionally believed. 

See Helge Kragh s chapter on the Danish case and Anders Lundgren s on the Swedish case, this volume. 

See Johannes W. Van Spronsen, The Periodic System of Chemical Elements, A History of the First Hundred Years (Amsterdam, London, New York Elsevier, 1969), 125 and 133. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Mendeleev s periodic system of chemical elements, British Journal for the History of Science 19 (1986) 3-17. Nathan M. Brooks, Dimitrii L. Mendeleev s Principles of Chemistry and the Periodic Law of the Elements, in Communicating Chemistry Textbooks and Their Audiences, ed. Anders Lundgren and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Canton Science History Publications, 2000), 295-311, and Michael D. Gordin, A Well-Ordered Thing Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (New York Basic Books, 2004). 

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