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1888S14079Paris :: Germer Bailliere et cie Felix Alcan 1888. 1888. Large 8vo. VII 1 398 2 pp. Half-title frontispiece 9 plates. Early quarter red morocco raised bands elaborately gilt-stamped spine marbled boards with original printed wrappers bound in; rubbed. Very good. 265 The author states he based this work on numerous original documents saying that Lavoisier had "perfect order" and "kept all his manuscript without any exception all his notes." He sought to mark his private virtues his efforts in support of public affairs philanthropy his academic work as an economist farmer and financier details of his premature death by guillotine the tribunal etc. / "In September 1793 a law was passed ordering the arrest of all foreigners born in enemy countries and all their property to be confiscated. Lavoisier intervened on behalf of Lagrange who certainly fell under the terms of the law. On 8 May 1794 after a trial that lasted less than a day a revolutionary tribunal condemned Lavoisier and 27 others to death. Lagrange said on the death of Lavoisier who was guillotined on the afternoon of the day of his trial" – O'Connor J.J.; Robertson E.F. "Joseph-Louis Lagrange" 2006. / Louis Edouard Grimaux was a French chemist known for his research in the area of organic synthesis. He was the author of more than 120 scientific papers and books. This is the first in-depth published biography of Lavoisier. / 'First elements of manufacturing industry or Simple Notions on the Processes used to prepare the objects necessary for food housing clothing and the education of man work written according to the most modern treatises.' Germer Bailliere et cie, Felix Alcan, 1888. hardcover
1788315231788. Crells Chem. Annalen 1788/11. - Helmstädt bey C.G. Fleckeisen 1788 8° pp.387-480 Broschur. The main object of this memoir is to show that the dissolution of metals in acids is a form of calcination . He proposes a system of symbols to express the reaction in a general way and shows that he is well aware of the problems of thermodynamics which were to prevent a full comprehension of chemical reactions until the concept of entropy had been formed. Duveen & Klickstein I p. 65 and: Lavoisier über die Fällung der metalischen Körper durch einander S.453-471. "This paper was presented on December 20 1783. Its title indicates its general scope which was to show the phenomenon of the replacement of certain metals from solutions of their salts by other metals. Lavoisier carried out numerous experiments tabulated their results and showed that had an inkling of the hypothesis afterwords known as the "law of multiple proportions". He was led to this concept by considering the amount of oxygen necessary to burn a given weight of each metal." Duveen & Klickstein I p.65f. Duveen & Klickstein No. 70 abstract; 71 extensive abstract unknown
1789315251789. Crells Chem. Annalen 1789/ 2. - Helmstädt bey C.G. Fleckeisen 1789 8° pp.99-192 Broschur. Lavoisier in this memoir which was presented on December 20 1783 built up a table of affinities of various elements with oxygen which he suggested should be added to the tables of affinities drawn up by Bergman and other chemists. Duveen & Klickstein I p.66 and: Lavoisier über die Natur der luftartigen Flüssigkeiten welche von einigen thierischen Stoffen in Gährung aufsteigen pp.173-183. "Lavosier in this paper studies the products of fermentation of sewage and shows that the emanating gases consist of carbon dioxide and 'gas inflamable' -he seems to have confused methane and hydrogen. It is a typical Lavosier production containing an account of detailed laboratory work on the products of fermentation of fecal matter and going on to make sound general recommendations for the construction of cesspits and the appropriate method of emptying them." Duveen & Klickstein I p. 67 Duveen & Klickstein 71 abstract; 74 abstract unknown
1787315191787. Crells Chem. Annalen 1787/ 346; 1787/ 1. - Helmstädt Leipzig Müller 1787 pp.195-384 483-574 96 pp. 4 Broschur. This most important memoir by Lavoisier and Laplace was based on work done in the winter of 1782-83. The paper was read before the Académie on June 18 1783. An ice calorimeter of their own invention was employed to measure specific heats and the heat evolved in combustion and respiration. In their experiements with guinea pigs Lavoisier and Laplace demonstrated that respiration is in every way a very slow combustion process and that chaleur animale is constantly beeing maintained by means of 'matière du feu' which is produced during respiration. Duveen & Klickstein I p.54f. and: Lavoisier zwote Abhandlung über verschiedene Verbindungen der Phosphorsäure S.254-258. "This memoir was read on November 18 1780. It is concerned with the compounds of phosphoric acid. Lavoisier refers to oxygen in this publication as air vital. " Duveen & Klickstein p.53 Lavoisier über ein besonderes Verfahren Phosphor ohne Verbrennen in Phosporsäure zu verwandeln S.259-262. Lavosier points out in this paper that if it was correct that phosphorus on burning yieled its acid through combinantion with atmospheric oxygen was induced to react with it. He state that theorectically nitric acid should be adequate for this purpose and describes the solution of phosphorus in hot nitric acid to give phosphoric acid. Lavoisier follows up his account with another attack on the phlogistan theory." Duveen & Klickstein I p.54 Duveen 55 externsice abstract 54 abstract 55 abstract unknown
1789466841789. Crells Chem. Annalen 1789/ 4. - Helmstädt bey C.G. Fleckeisen 1789 8° 2 pp.291-384 Broschur. Lavoisier in this Mémoire sur l'union du Principe oxygine avec le Fer." Mém. Acad. R. Sci. 1782 1785 which was presented on December 20 1783. Lavoisier here details the reactions between iron and atmospheric air oxygen sulfuric acid nitric acid and water. The theoretical conclusions are based on his idea that oxygen is the acidifying principle common to all acids; he mentions that much of the work on which he bases his paper had originally been done by either Bergman or Fourcroy." Duveen & Klickstein I p. 67 Duveen & Klickstein 713 abstract. unknown
1791315271791. Crells Chem. Annalen 1791/ 1- 6. - Helmstädt Universitäts-Buchhandlung 1791 Kl.8° 564 pp. 3 Bl. 1 Tab. Pappband der Zeit. This paper was read on February 15 1785. Lavosier proves by experiments made on a guinea pig and in a theatre that animals and men cannot breathe and live without inconvenience in a determined volume of atmosphere for any length of time. He proposes that theatres hospitals and other places of assembly should be better ventilated but he does not draw any definite conclusions as to the exact chemical nature of the expired air which vitiates the atmosphere under such given circumstances. Duveen & Klickstein I p. 70f. Duveen & Klickstein 79 abstract unknown
1803309551803. Allg. Journ. Chemie 10/59. - Berlin Heinrich Frölich 1803 8° pp.463-572 orig. Broschur; unbeschnittenes Exemplar in der sehr seltenen orig. Broschur. INCUNABULA OF MODERN PHYSIOLOGY - This is the first German translation of "Premier Mémoire sur la Transpiration des Animaux par Seguin et Lavoisier" Mémoires de l' Acad. des sc. p. Année 1790. Paris 1797 S.601-612" by Alexander Nicolau Scherer "It set a new standard of accuracy for metabolic studies and along with the "Premier Mémoire sur la Respiration des Animaux" 1789; it is one of the incunabula of modern physiology." - Duveen & KLickstein No.106 Not in Duveen und Klickstein only Italian and Spanish translation. unknown
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1982007289Neale Watson Academic Publications Inc 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Octavo. No jacket. Dark blue cloth boards with blind stamp illustration on front and rose gold gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner name stamp on bottom edge of text block; some very mild scuffs on boards. Binding tight text clean and unmarked. Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc hardcover
17781465Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1778. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION LAVOISIER'S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. <br /> <br /> In this work Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases one "highly respirable" that he named "oxygen" and the other later named nitrogen that was unable to support combustion or respiration. This work is commonly referred to as Lavoisier's "Easter Memoir" because he presented an earlier version to the Academy around Easter of 1775; as this is the 1778 revised version historians regard it as Lavoisier's "official" Easter Memoir Wikipedia. We offer the 1780 edition separately.<br /> <br /> In April 1778 "Lavoisier read for a second time the memoir in which he had originally demonstrated in April 1775 that mercury precipitate reduced without charcoal disengages not fixed air but the ‘air itself entire' or ‘the purest portion of the air'. He made some revisions in the text that have attracted widespread attention from historians" Holmes Lavoisier 137. <br /> <br /> In the time between 1775 and 1778 Lavoisier repeated some of performed some new experiments of his own and repeated some of Priestley's. In the 1778 ‘official' version Lavoisier "altered the language in which he had described that air calling it now ‘the most salubrious the most pure portion of the air' and air ‘in an eminently respirable state'. Fastening on to this last phrase he again referred to the air later in his memoir as ‘eminently respirable air'. At the same time he deleted references to it in the original version as ‘common air' and eliminated the experimental description that it reacted to the nitrous air test in the same manner as common air. <br /> <br /> "Historians have tended to treat with suspicion the textual changes Lavoisier made. The implication seems to be that he sought to represent himself as having clearly understood in 1775 that the air released from the mercury calx is a specific portion of the atmosphere when in fact he had then still not distinguished it unambiguously from ordinary air. If one couples this suspicion with acceptance of Priestley's charge that Lavoisier had obtained the idea for the experiment from him in the first place then one creates an image of Lavoisier as one who is known to have had an ‘occasional tendency to allow the work of others to pass as his own'. <br /> <br /> "There is however no solid evidence that in making these changes he was attempting to rewrite history. His motivation was probably simple. By the spring of 1778 when his new theoretical edifice had solidified the experiments on mercury calx would have come to appear to him as one of the decisive experimental foundations on which he had erected it. Yet when he looked back on the paper which reported these experiments from the vantage point he had since attained the descriptions of the air he had identified in it would have appeared confused ambiguous and inconsistent. <br /> <br /> "The embarrassment of allowing such flaws to remain in what he could now anticipate might someday be regarded as a classic paper is obvious. Since the paper had yet to appear in the Memoirs of the Academy chronically two to three years late in publication he had a convenient opportunity to avoid that outcome" Holmes. <br /> <br /> ALSO INCLUDED: An important paper by P. S. Laplace introducing the concept of the "Coriolis effect" fifty years before Coriolis. Euler had also written about the effect in 1749. "Recherches sur plusieurs points du système du monde" in Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences Année 1775 pp. 75-182 1778. This is part one of a two part paper. CONDITION: Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. 4to 10.5 x 8.25. 11 folding engraved copperplates. Prior ownership name 'Bernardi' on front free endpaper. Contemporary full leather binding. Front joint between spine and boards cracking but solid. Handsome wide margins throughout. Slight toning throughout otherwise bright and very clean. Very good condition. De l'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
17801466Paris: Hotel de Thou rue des Poitevins 1780. LAVOISIER'S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. THIS IS THE 1780 edition. WE OFFER THE 1st 1778 EDITION SEPARATELY. <br /> <br /> In this work Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases one "highly respirable" that he named "oxygen" and the other later named nitrogen that was unable to support combustion or respiration. This work is commonly referred to as Lavoisier's "Easter Memoir" because he presented an earlier version to the Academy around Easter of 1775; as this is the 1778 revised version historians regard it as Lavoisier's "official" Easter Memoir Wikipedia. <br /> <br /> In April 1778 "Lavoisier read for a second time the memoir in which he had originally demonstrated in April 1775 that mercury precipitate reduced without charcoal disengages not fixed air but the ‘air itself entire' or ‘the purest portion of the air'. He made some revisions in the text that have attracted widespread attention from historians" Holmes Lavoisier 137. <br /> <br /> In the time between 1775 and 1778 Lavoisier repeated some of performed some new experiments of his own and repeated some of Priestley's. In the 1778 ‘official' version Lavoisier "altered the language in which he had described that air calling it now ‘the most salubrious the most pure portion of the air' and air ‘in an eminently respirable state'. Fastening on to this last phrase he again referred to the air later in his memoir as ‘eminently respirable air'. At the same time he deleted references to it in the original version as ‘common air' and eliminated the experimental description that it reacted to the nitrous air test in the same manner as common air. <br /> <br /> "Historians have tended to treat with suspicion the textual changes Lavoisier made. The implication seems to be that he sought to represent himself as having clearly understood in 1775 that the air released from the mercury calx is a specific portion of the atmosphere when in fact he had then still not distinguished it unambiguously from ordinary air. If one couples this suspicion with acceptance of Priestley's charge that Lavoisier had obtained the idea for the experiment from him in the first place then one creates an image of Lavoisier as one who is known to have had an ‘occasional tendency to allow the work of others to pass as his own'. <br /> <br /> "There is however no solid evidence that in making these changes he was attempting to rewrite history. His motivation was probably simple. By the spring of 1778 when his new theoretical edifice had solidified the experiments on mercury calx would have come to appear to him as one of the decisive experimental foundations on which he had erected it. Yet when he looked back on the paper which reported these experiments from the vantage point he had since attained the descriptions of the air he had identified in it would have appeared confused ambiguous and inconsistent. <br /> <br /> "The embarrassment of allowing such flaws to remain in what he could now anticipate might someday be regarded as a classic paper is obvious. Since the paper had yet to appear in the Memoirs of the Academy chronically two to three years late in publication he had a convenient opportunity to avoid that outcome" Holmes. CONDITION: Paris: Hotel de Thou rue des Poitevins. 8vo. 6.5 x 4. 12 folding engraved copperplates. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full leather binding. Chipped in several places. Internally fine. Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins hardcover
a108438Paris. "An III de la Republique" publisher: "Chez Fugs Libraire au coin des rues de Hurpoix & Gille-Coeur." The landmark paper which set the foundation for modern chemistry appeared in the "Tome Premier" of 1789. The text of this volume is exactly the same as the 1789 edition of the Annales except for the titlepage publisher and date. Lavoisier paper is on pp.19-30 . The volume as a whole has 313p. and includes articles by Girtanner Klaproth M. Berthollet others. In French. Small octavo. Volume's original boards are gone but text block is strongly and securely bound text has no wear or tear and is almost entirely clean except for a very few spots of soiling; light foxing on initial and final pages. Text lightly evenly toned. There is an old red oval institute stamp on tp and a black ink number on tp. Blue marbled end papers original Our binder will put a plain paper cover on the book on request and free of charge or book can be purchased "as is" for customer to arrange for recovering. The book would make a beautiful volume in fine leather. Antoine Lavoisier was tragically guillotined in May of 1794 by the radical government during the French Revolution. Pictures of the book available on request. Essential article in history of Chemistry. . hardcover
46368Cuchet - edition originale premier tirage In-8 iv-314pp. un grand tableau depliant 6 planches et tableaux depliants in-fine reliure demi-basane de l'epoque dos orne fers et filets dores piece de titre vert emeraude legeres usures aux coiffes ex-libris manuscrit Nb-0107 Publiee en Aout 1787 cette premiere edition regroupe et fait la synthese des differents memoires publies sur les nouvelles denominations chimiques et ses nouveaux symboles depuis 1780 habituellement attribuee a Lavoisier. unknown
1787S14078Paris :: Chez Cuchet 1787. 1787. 8vo. iv 314 pp. PAGINATION NOTE: pages 257-272 are mis-numbered 241-256 Duveen. Half-title woodcut title-page vignette headpiece tailpieces 6 folding tables of chemical symbols 1 folding plate; page 1 of the text trimmed at top margin and mounted on a stub foxed. Contemporary full mottled calf red leather spine label gilt-stamped spine; foot of spine mended with kozo patch upper joint cracked corners of read cover chewed. Ownership signature on title under the vignette. Very good. 264 FIRST EDITION second issue second printing with the flowered vase on the title-page previously a cherub and no colophon on page 314. Lavoisier's new terminology of chemistry was an important part of his reforms in the science and it has been in use with some modifications ever since its introduction. "The merits of the new nomenclature are even today more than evident since with only slight modification it is still the basis of the language of modern chemistry." Duveen & Klickstein pp. 119-126. Louis Guyton de Morveau was trained as a lawyer who taught himself the subject of chemistry. From 1776-1789 he taught public courses in chemistry at the Dihon Academy. He was professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1794-1811 twice serving as its director. ALL AUTHORS: LAVOISIER Antoine Laurent 1743-1794 ; Louis Bernard GUYTON DE MORVEAU 1737-1816 ; Claude-Louis BERTHOLLET 1748-1822 ; Antoine-Francois de FOURCROY 1755-1809 ; Jean Henri HASSENFRATZ 1755-1827 ; Pierre-Auguste ADET 1763-1834. PROVENANCE: Emile on title. REFERENCES: Blake/NLM p. 191 2nd printing; Cole Chemical literature 566; DSB Vol. V. pp. 600-604; Duveen Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica p. 340; Duveen & Klickstein 130; Gascoigne 7150.4; Partington A history of chemistry Vol. III p. 372; Poggendorf Vol. I col. 981; Wellcome III p. 185. Chez Cuchet, 1787. hardcover
179246020Paris Rue et Hôtel Serpente 1792-93. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 15 December issue Tome 16 January issue entire issues offered. Pp. 224-266 pp. 297-316 Resultat. pp. 3-39 a. 1 large folded table. <br/><br/><em>First printing of two importent memoirson the Salpetre industry. </em> unknown
178943634Paris Rue et Hotel Serpente 1789. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Gilt spine slightly rubbed light wear to spine ends. "Annales de Chimie: ou Recueil de Mémoires Concernant la Chimie et les Arts qui en Dépendent. Par MM. de Morveau Lavoisier Monge Berthollet De Fourcroy le Baron de Dietrich Hassenfratz & Adet." Tome Premier. 23122 pp. The entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots. A small wormtract to upper margin of ab. 20 leaves no loss of letters. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the first volume of this very important journal founded by Lavoisier and his friends collaborating in establishing THE NEW SCIENCE of Anti-Phlogistic theory in chemistry. Crosland in "The two French Revolutions" and "The Imperial Despotism of Oxygen" claims that for a clear understanding of the CHEMICAL REVOLUTION THE NEW JOURNAL of ANNALES DE CHIMIE can be rightly considered as FUNDAMENTAL as the "Traite élementaire de Chimie"."A third and most important instrument was the establishment of a new scientific journal edited - and dominated - by the votaries of the "new chemistry". The first number of this journal of the Annales de chimie appeared in 1789 the year of the Revolution. Its editors were besides Lavoisier his early disciples - Guyton Berthollet Fourcroy and Monge - with the addition of three new recruits: the Strassbourf metallurgist the Baron de Dietrich Jean-henri Hssenfratz and Pierre Auguste Adet."DSB VIII p.81.LAVOISIER'S paper on COMBUSTION pp. 19-30 contains his important interpretation of the phenomena of combustion in air making the fundamental distinction between burning and combustion. By this "Lavoisier gave to the study of chemistry a new life a new direction and a wider outlook." Alexander Findley."The Lavoisierian memoir on combustion of iron stood out among the large number of interesting papers discussed in the first volume of the "Annales". In his account Lavoisier sustained that in nature combustion without flames did occur. Thus he clarified the distinction between ordinary burning and combustion: an issue on which the majority of traditional chemists were confused. The need for accuracy and precision in laboratory practices was emphasised in his study as it was a means to determine quantities rather than assuming them."Angela Bandinelli in "Scientific Communication During a Major Change .Empirical Research: Annales de chimie vs Obs. sur la physique/ Journal de physique 1789-1803.The volume furthermore contains important papers by: Adet Fourcroy 3 papers Berthollet 3 papers Chaptal Hassenfratz 5 papers Baron de Dietrich 2 papers Klaproth 2 papers Girtanner Dollfuss Bonz de Ettingen Crell De Morveau. </em> unknown
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1787EBS100301Chez Cuchet Paris 1787. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A landmark publication in chemistry where four French scientists presented a new systematic way of naming chemical substances laying the foundation for modern chemical nomenclature still used today. <br /> <br /> The late 18th century witnessed considerable debates over the theory and practice of chemistry. The chief theoretical shift was the identification of oxygen in place of the hypothesized phlogiston which led many contemporaries to view the existing chemical terminology as outdated and confused. <br /> <br /> This move was largely driven by Lavoisier 1743-1791 and his fellow authors of the Méthode Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau 1737-1816 Claude-Louis Berthollet 1748-1822 and Antoine-François de Fourcroy 1755-1809. In the Méthode they develop a systematic nomenclature largely derived from oxygen theory arguing that chemical substances should be named according to their constituents. Simple substances should receive simple names and compounds should receive complex names deriving from their constituents. "The new terms were soon translated and adapted into other languages and became the basis of the modern nomenclature of inorganic chemistry. In the purely pragmatic terms of the terminology used modern chemistry therefore starts in 1787" Crosland p. 411. There were two issues of the first edition: this second is identified by misnumbering pages 258-9 262-3 266-7 and 270-1. <br /> <br /> The first edition itself there were two in 1787 is identified by the woodcut on the title page depicting a cherub supervising distillation. Duveen & Klickstein 126; Norman 1291. Maurice Crosland "Chemistry and the chemical revolution" in The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-century Science 1980. <br /> <br /> BOOK DESCRIPTION AND CONDITION: First Ed First Printing Second Issue Duveen and Klickstein pp 119-126 8vo 314pp huge folding table of Nomenclature six folded tables of chemical symbols; cherub & distillation apparatus on title page colophon p. 314. Mod. marbled boards. Very good condition throughout. The folding tables outline the first taxonomic system of chemical substances arranged according to their composition a system which proved immediately influential; even established figures like Priestley felt obliged to adopt the new terminology.<br /> <br /> PROVENANCE: From the Arthur C. Greenberg Chemical History Library. Presentation copy to Thomas Wedgwood Junior the eldest son of Thomas Wedgwood and older brother of the more well-known Isaiah Wedgwood from his cousin Thomas Byerley in 1787; T. Wedgwood Jr. and Byerley manufactured their own line of porcelain. Chez Cuchet (Paris) hardcover
178773124à Paris: Chez Cuchet 1787. Fine. Chez Cuchet à Paris 1787 13.50 x 21 cm broché Second printing of the first edition: pages 257 to 272 are misnumbered 241-256 Duveen and Klickstein. Illustrated with a large chart and 6 folding plates at rear. Library stamp of Laboratoires Lumière on the half-title title page and several other pages. Another stamp ""G. Chicanuard"" appears on the half-title; we have found no information about this person. Temporary binding in full marbled paper. Handwritten title on spine. Some small paper losses in places and joint on second board cracked but still sound. Copy as issued with full margins. The Méthode forms a manifesto for a revolution in the world of chemistry and the birth of modern chemistry a chemistry that resolutely turns its back on the past by becoming scientific. It was Lavoisier the most influential scientist at the Academy of Sciences who brought together around his theory and to support it decisively the greatest French chemists: Fourcroy Berthollet Adet Hassenfratz and Guyton de Morveau whom the already formed group welcomed to Paris in February 1787. The latter joined them with an advanced chemical nomenclature which would be revised by Lavoisier who demanded that Morveau abandon his phlogistic theory principle of a combustible element in air dating from the 17th century since he had discovered the role of oxygen. It was at this price that he was entrusted with presenting the new nomenclature. It was in the session of May 2 1787 at the Academy of Sciences that the terms ""oxygen"" ""hydrogen"" and ""carbon"" were pronounced for the very first time. Adet and Hassenfratz were responsible for proposing symbols for ""new characters to be used in chemistry"" which would not have much success but was destined for a great future. The entire project was placed under the authority and will of Lavoisier and the decision that Morveau should carry the project was a political decision intended to ensure better reception among foreign scientists. No one was deceived because it was Lavoisier who would be attacked by Western science. Very important work that marks the birth certificate of scientific chemistry. Chez Cuchet unknown
1787173027Paris: Chez Cuchet 1787. Modern chemistry therefore starts in 1787 First edition second issue of the work which introduced modern chemical terminology among the most fundamental scientific texts of the 18th century. The folding tables outline the first taxonomic system of chemical substances arranged according to their composition a system which proved immediately influential; even established figures like Priestley felt obliged to adopt the new terminology. The late 18th century witnessed considerable debates over the theory and practice of chemistry. The chief theoretical shift was the identification of oxygen in place of the hypothesized phlogiston which led many contemporaries to view the existing chemical terminology as outdated and confused. This move was largely driven by Lavoisier 1743-1791 and his fellow authors of the Méthode Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau 1737-1816 Claude-Louis Berthollet 1748-1822 and Antoine-François de Fourcroy 1755-1809. In the Méthode they develop a systematic nomenclature largely derived from oxygen theory arguing that chemical substances should be named according to their constituents. Simple substances should receive simple names and compounds should receive complex names deriving from their constituents. "The new terms were soon translated and adapted into other languages and became the basis of the modern nomenclature of inorganic chemistry. In the purely pragmatic terms of the terminology used modern chemistry therefore starts in 1787" Crosland p. 411. There were two issues of the first edition: this second is identified by misnumbering pages 258-9 262-3 266-7 and 270-1. The first edition itself there were two in 1787 is identified by the woodcut on the title page depicting a cherub supervising distillation. Octavo 185 x 120 mm pp. 4 314. With 7 folding tables woodcut title page vignette head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled sheep spine with foliate decoration in gilt brown calf label lettered in gilt raised bands covers with single fillet border in blind marbled endpapers edges red pink silk bookmarker. Later pencil annotation to upper margin of p. 9. Light bumping and rubbing minor stripping to covers tail of front joint neatly repaired front inner hinge split but holding firm loss to lower outer corner of half-title inner margin of leaf G7 and outer margin of rear free endpaper none affecting text a couple of closed tears to initial folding table contents otherwise clean: a very good copy. Duveen & Klickstein 126; Norman 1291. Maurice Crosland "Chemistry and the chemical revolution" in The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-century Science 1980. hardcover
1787612Paris: Cuchet 1787. 1st. Full mottled calf with gilt tooling along the edges gilt spine compartments with floral ornaments and leather spine label. Contemporary binding with rubbing and wear along the spine and corners. Boards show mottling and fading with some scuffing. Pages exhibit foxing toning and occasional spotting consistent with age. Folding tables are intact and legible though with some creasing and edge wear. Features: Marbled edges; multiple large folding tables and engraved charts; decorative typographic ornaments. Overall good. <p data-start="251" data-end="727">Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique Paris: Cuchet 1787 is the groundbreaking work that introduced the modern system of chemical nomenclature marking a turning point in the history of science. Written collaboratively by Morveau Lavoisier Berthollet and Fourcroy—four of the most influential chemists of the 18th century—this treatise sought to replace centuries of inconsistent and confusing chemical terminology with a rational systematic method of naming substances.</p> <br /> <p data-start="729" data-end="1178">The work introduces a new nomenclature rooted in clarity precision and universality laying the foundation for the modern language of chemistry. Included are detailed explanations of the logic behind the naming system as well as extensive tables of elements and compounds that illustrate the method in practice. The treatise also contains supplementary sections by Hassenfratz and Adet who proposed a symbolic notation for chemical substances.</p> <br /> <p data-start="1180" data-end="1537">Lavishly produced the book features large folding tables and engraved charts including the famous “Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique†which visually organizes the new classification of substances. These elements highlight both the pedagogical and scientific ambitions of the project: to unify chemists under a single coherent system of communication.</p> <br /> <p data-start="1539" data-end="1749">This volume is considered a cornerstone of the Chemical Revolution appearing just two years before Lavoisier’s Traité élémentaire de chimie 1789 and cementing his role as the father of modern chemistry.</p> . Cuchet unknown
