The Rise and Fall of Nitrous Air Eudiometry: Enlightenment Ideals, Embodied Skills, and the Conflicts of Experimental Philosophy (2013)
Boantza, Victor D. (Author)
History of Science
Volume: 51, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 377-412
Publication date: 2013
Language: English
The article considers trends in chemistry experimentation using nitrous air (nitric oxide), focusing on a separate field of research which became known as eudiometry in the late eighteenth century. Topics considered include Enlightenment science, the philosophy of scientific experimentation, experimental errors, scientific technology and instruments, and scientific controversies in the field of eudiometry. Notable scientists of the period considered include Joseph Priestley, Felice Fontana, and Jean Magellan.
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