Crosland, Maurice P. (Author)
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 56
Pages: 93--114
The Chemical Revolution of the late eighteenth century consisted essentially of combustion being explained by the addition of oxygen rather than by the removal of phlogiston. This has been seen as the paradigm shift of a scientific revolution in the familiar Kuhnian sense. Yet Lavoisier helped to change chemistry in several other ways as well, particularly by the introduction of a new chemical language. This reorganisation of chemistry, at a time when it was being swamped with many new substances, has great similarity to the slightly earlier systematisation of botany by Linnaeus through the introduction of a binomial nomenclature. A further parallel in the late eighteenth century was the introduction of the metric system, which also introduced a new language. Yet, however one understands the Chemical Revolution, Lavoisier clearly made an enormous difference, not only to the internal science of chemistry, but also to its status. By the end of the 1700s, chemistry had become something of a model science.
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