A Letter from Guyton de Morveau to Macquart Relating to Lavoisier's Attack against the Phlogiston Theory (1778); With an Account of de Morveau's Conversion to Lavoisier's Doctrines in 1787

Osiris ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 342-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis I. Duveen ◽  
Herbert S. Klickstein
Keyword(s):  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Guyton De Morveau

Early Opposition to the Phlogiston Theory: Two Anonymous Attacks

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carleton Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Equal Weight ◽  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Guyton De Morveau ◽  
Simultaneous Loss ◽  
General Fact

For French chemistry the early 1770's were lively years of discovery and controversy. Two neglected areas of research were opened up in 1772 with the publication of the Digressions académiques by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau and with the first knowledge of later British pneumatic chemistry. Guyton's book established the general fact of weight-gain in metals upon calcination, thereby raising the problem of reconciling this gain with simultaneous loss of phlogiston. The spread of pneumatic chemistry, which proceeded rapidly in 1773, stimulated a renewed interest in the nature of air and its part in chemical composition. It was, of course, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier who perceived a relationship between these two developments—one which he believed would revolutionize the current understanding of chemical processes. In 1772 Lavoisier began the series of investigations which culminated in his Opuscules physiques et chimiques (1774), in which he demonstrated that weight-gain in both calcination and combustion is correlated with absorption of an equal weight of air.

Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
Keyword(s):  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Guyton De Morveau

<span>Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737-1816) es considerado uno de los más importantes miembros del grupo de científicos franceses que en siglo dieciocho destronaron la teoría del flogisto y establecieron el marco de la química moderna. Su contribución al estudio de la afinidad química, al establecimiento de normas racionales de nomenclatura química, y al desarrollo de la educación superior fue decisiva en una época crítica de la ciencia en Francia. Durante la mayor parte de su vida Guyton fue un firme partidario de la teoría del flogisto, pero eventualmente aceptó los descubrimientos de Lavoisier y ayudó a establecerlos como hechos irrefutables.</span>

scholarly journals James Keir of the Lunar Society

1967 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Modern Chemistry ◽  
Lunar Society Of Birmingham

THE long career of James Keir (born in Edinburgh on 20 September 1735, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 December 1785, died at West Bromwich on 11 October 1820) effectively covered the period of the scientific revolution out of which modern chemistry evolved. Keir himself played a significant part in that revolution, as writer, experimenter, and industrialist—and, by no means least, as a frequent ‘chairman’ at meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which he helped to hold together by his tact and force of character. Although there are frequent references to Keir in books and articles dealing with the period (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), he remains relatively unknown, partly because he was overshadowed by men like Priestley and Watt, partly because he adhered too long to the phlogiston theory, and perhaps also because of his own modesty. A short account of his life, and an appreciation of his contributions to science and technology, may therefore not be out of place, particularly in view of the marked revival of interest in the Lunar Society in recent years.

Richard Kirwan's Phlogiston Theory: Its Success and Fate

Ambix ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Mauskop
Keyword(s):  
Phlogiston Theory

scholarly journals Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau e a revolução química das Luzes

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 733-758
Author(s):  
Ronei Clécio Mocellin
Keyword(s):  
Guyton De Morveau

On the quantity of carbon in carbonic acid, and on the nature of the diamond

1832 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 272-275
Keyword(s):  
Carbonic Acid ◽  
Horizontal Position ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Small Furnace ◽  
Guyton De Morveau ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Oxygen Gas ◽  
The Difference

The experiments, which form the subject of the present communication were undertaken, not only on account of the difference between the estimates that have been made of the quantity of carbon in carbonic acid, but because those of Guyton de Morveau, which are most frequently preferred at this time in various systems of chemistry, appeared liable to many objections, from the manner in which they were conducted; while the original experiments of Lavoisier, on the contrary, appear to have been performed with much accuracy, and had moreover been confirmed by Mr. Tennant in his researches on the nature of the diamond. The design of the authoi’s was to consume certain known quantities of diamond and of other carbonaceous substances in oxygen gas; for which purpose it had been originally their intention to employ he sun’s rays, by means of a powerful lens; but, considering the uncertainty of a favourable opportunity in this country, they resolved to employ an apparatus consisting of two mercurial gas-holders, with a tube of platina interposed between them in a horizontal position, and passing through a small furnace, by which the tube and its contents might be heated to any degree requisite for the combustion of the substance employed.

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