Rappaport, Rhoda

Rappaport, Rhoda. G.-F. Rouelle an Eighteenth-Century Chemist and Teacher. Chymia 6 (i960) 68-101. 

Rappaport, Rhoda. G.-F. Rouelle, His Cours de chimie, and Their Significance for Eighteenth Century Chemistry. Master s thesis, Cornell University, 1958. Rappaport, Rhoda. G.-F. Rouelle An Eighteenth-Century Chemist and... 

Rappaport, Rhoda. Rouelle and Stahl—The Phlogistic Revolution in France. Chymia 7, 1961, 73-102. 

Rappaport, Rhoda. Guettard, Lavoisier, and Monnet Geologists in the Service of the French Monarchy. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1964. 

Rappaport, Rhoda. Lavoisier s Geologic Activities, 1763-1792. Isis 18,1965, 375-384. 

Rappaport, Rhoda. Lavoisier s Theory of the Earth. BJHS 6, 1973, 247-260. Rappaport, Rhoda. The Liberties of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1716-1785. In The Analytic Spirit, ed. H. Woolf (Cornell University Press, 1981). 

Rappaport, Rhoda. Baron d Holbach s Campaign for German (and Swedish) Science. Studies on Voltaire 323, 1994, 225-246. 

For detailed accounts of Rouelle, see Rhoda Rappaport, G.-F. Rouelle An Eighteenth-... 

J.B. Gough, Lavoisier and the Fulfillment of the Stahlian Revolution, Osiris 4 (1988) 15-33. I will discuss Rhoda Rappaports work on Rouelle and Stahl in Chapter Seven. See Robert Siegfried and Betty Jo Dobbs, Composition A Neglected Aspect of the Chemical Revolution, Ann. Sci. 24 (1968) 275-293. 

Rhoda Rappaport has provided an analysis of Rouelle s overall structure into what she has denominated his Element/Instrument theory. In Rouelle s design, happily laid out more clearly by Rappaport than Rouelle ever expressed it himself, each of the four elements, earth, water, air and fire, occurred either fixed in a chemical combination, or free in an uncombined... 

Douglas McKie, Guillaume-Fran9ois Rouelle (1703-1770), Endeavour July 1953, 130-133 Rhoda Rappaport, G.-R Rouelle An Eighteenth-Century Chemist and Teacher, Chymia 6, 1960, 68-101 Jean Mayer, Portrait d un chimiste Guillaume-Fran ois Rouelle (1703-1770), Revue d histoire des sciences et leurs applications 23, 1970, 305-332. 

These lectures were never published, however. For a full manuscript, see Cours de chymie de M. Rouelle, redige par M. Diderot, mss. 564-565, Bordeaux Public Library. For a list of manuscript copies in various libraries, see Rhoda Rappaport, G.-F. Rouelle His Course de Chimie and Their Significance for Eighteenth Century Chemistry, master s thesis, Cornell University, 1958 Jean Jacques, Le Cours de chimie de G.-F. Rouelle recueilli par Diderot, Revue d histoire des sciences et leurs applications 38,1985, 43-53. On Rouelle s influence on Diderot, see Jean-Claude Guedon, Chimie et materialisme La strategic anti-Newtonienne de Diderot, Dix-huitmne siecle 11, 1979, 185-200. 

A. N. Meldrum, Lavoisier s Early Work in Science, 1763-1771, Isis 19, 1933, 330-363 20,1934, 396-425. On Lavoisier s sustained interest in geology, see Rhoda Rappaport, Guettard, Lavoisier, and Monnet Geologists in the Service of the French Monarchy, Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1964. 

My debt to the existing scholarship should be obvious throughout the text. I am thinking particularly of Helene Metzger, Rhoda Rappaport,... 

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