Essays in historical chemistry / by T.E. Thorpe.

London : Macmillan and co., limited ; New York : The Macmillan company, 1902.

xii, 582 pages ; 23 cm

Mainly lectures and addresses which have already appeared in print but are here altered and corrected where necessary

Robert Boyle. -- Joseph Priestly. -- Carl Wilhelm Scheele. -- Henry Cavendish. -- James Watt. -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. -- Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and La révolution chimique. -- Michael Faraday. -- Thomas Graham. -- Friedrich Wöhler. -- Jean Baptiste André Dumas. -- Hermann Kop. -- Victor Meyer. -- Dmitri Ivanowitsh Mendeleeff. -- Stanislas Cannizzaro. -- The rise and development of synthetical chemistry. -- On the progress of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland during the nineteenth century. -- On the development of the chemical arts during the reign of Queen Victoria.