History of Chemistry (Thorpe) Quotes

“Organic chemistry”

“History of science”

“History of chemistry”

“Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry by Humphry Davy”

“Tin ores are found in Britain (Cornwall), and were brought thence by the Phoenicians.”

“This cardinal discovery may be said to have completed the downfall of phlogiston.”

“Bunsen was no theorist, and purely speculative questions had little or no interest for him.”

“Bunsen worked on problems of chemical geology, and made a long series of analyses of volcanic products.”

“[C]hemistry originated with men, and it was not so much in the love of women as of wine that it took its rise.”

“His published works contain many well-authenticated chemical facts, which are commonly held to be the discovery of a later time.”

“Next to Boyle, perhaps the most active agent in emancipating chemistry from the yoke of alchemy was Boerhaave...”

“After graduating at Giessen he went, in 1846, to Paris, where he came under the influence of Comte, with whom he studied mathematics.”

“Graham's work was mainly devoted to... physical chemistry.”

“Oxides of manganese were used as brown pigments.”

“With [Leon] Schischkoff, he examined, in 1857, the products of fired gunpowder.”

“He made Gottingen famous as a school of chemistry. ...[U]pwards of 8000 students had listened to his lectures or worked in his laboratory.”

“In this treatise Boyle sets out to prove that the number of the peripatetic elements or principles hitherto assumed by chemists is, to say the least, doubtful.”

“Aristotle affirmed that natural science can only be founded upon a knowledge of facts, and facts can only be ascertained through observation and experiment.”

“[We cannot] now concern ourselves with the old metaphysical quibble of its divisibility or indivisibility. It may be, as Lucretius said, that the original atom is very far down.”

“He revived the atomic hypothesis, and explained chemical combination on the basis of affinity.”