Article ID: CBB001552591

Lavoisier's “Reflections on Phlogiston” I: Against Phlogiston Theory (2015)

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This seminal paper, which marks a turning point of the chemical revolution, is presented for the first time in a complete English translation. In this first half Lavoisier undermines phlogiston chemistry by arguing that his French contemporaries (particularly P.-J. Macquer and Baumé) had replaced Stahl's original theory with radically different systems that conceptualised the phlogiston principle in completely incompatible ways. He refutes their claims by showing that these later models were riddled with inconsistencies as to phlogiston's weight, its ability to penetrate glass and its role as a source of colour and odour in chemical compounds.

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Authors & Contributors
John A. Stewart
Best, Nicholas W.
McEvoy, John G.
Mauskopf, Seymour H.
Silva, Marcos Rodrigues da
Roberts, Lissa Louise
Journals
Hyle
Foundations of Chemistry
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Nagoya Kogyo Daigaku gakuho
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Publishers
Suhrkamp
Pickering & Chatto
Franco Angeli
University of Oklahoma
Indiana University
Concepts
Phlogiston
Chemistry
Revolutions in science
Oxygen
Historiography
Theories of heat
People
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Kirwan, Richard
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Berthollet, Claude Louis
Göttling, Johann Friedrich August
Venel, Gabriel François
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
Places
France
Great Britain
Scotland
Ireland
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
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