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Chemical revolution
Reformulation of chemistry in the 17th and 18th centuries
Geoffroy's 1718 Affinity Table: at the head of each column is a chemical species with which all the species below can combine. Some historians have defined this table as being the start of the chemical revolution.[1]
During the 19th and 20th century, this transformation was credited to the work of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (the "father of modern chemistry").[2] However, recent work on the history of early modern chemistry considers the chemical revolution to consist of gradual changes in chemical theory and practice that emerged over a period of two centuries.[3][4] The so-called Scientific Revolution took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whereas the chemical revolution took place during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[5]
^Kim, Mi Gyung (2003). Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. MIT Press. ISBN978-0-262-11273-4.
^Eddy, Matthew Daniel; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. (January 2014). "An Introduction to Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World". Osiris. 29 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1086/678110. PMID26103744.
^Eddy, Matthew D.; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. (2015). Osiris, Volume 29: Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World. University of Chicago Press Journals. ISBN978-0-226-15839-6.[page needed]