Roberts, Lissa

Roberts, Lissa. Setting the Table The Disciplinary Development of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as Read Through the Changing Structure of Its Tables. In The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument, ed. P. Dear (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). 

Roberts, Lissa. A Word and the World The Significance of Naming the... 

Roberts, Lissa, ed. The Chemical Revolution Context and Practices. The Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation 33, 1992, 195-271. 

Roberts, Lissa. Condillac, Lavoisier, and the Instrumentalization of Science. The Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation 33,1992, 252-271. Roberts, Lissa. Filling the Space of Possibilities Eighteenth-Century Chemistry s Transition from Art to Science. Science in Context 6,1993, 511-553. 

Roberts, Lissa. Going Dutch Situating Sciences in the Dutch Enlightenment. In The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, ed. W. Clark et al. (University of Chicago Press, 1999). 

Roberts, Lissa (1995) The Death of the Sensuous Chemist The New Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 26, 4 503-529. 

As Lissa Roberts emphasizes, all testimonies suggest that Rouelle s public demonstrations were theatrical performances.39 And this theatrical - spectacular - way of transmitting chemical knowledge may be the chief reason for Rouelle s immense popularity. 

Lissa Roberts, Chemistry on stage G.F. Rouelle and the theatricality of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, B. Bensaude-Vincent and C. Blondel, eds., Science and Spectacle (London Ashgate, forthcoming). 

Instruments and Audiences in French Chemistry Lissa Roberts and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent developed constructivist analyses of the Chemical Revolution which related Lavoisier s use of the ice-calorimeter and the balance to the rhetorical, experimental and theoretical practices that accompanied them and the audiences for which they were intended. The proliferation of imponderable substances - in the form of electrical and magnetic fluids, phlogiston and the matter of heat, or caloric- in physics... 

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