The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry : The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (Nuncius Series)

Beretta, Marco/ Brenni, Paolo

Brill（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 454 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004408692
• DDC分類 542

Full Description

The substantial collection of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's apparatus is not the only surviving collection of eighteenth-century chemical apparatus and instrumentation, but it is without question the most important. The present study provides the first scientific catalogue of Lavoisier's surviving apparatus. This collection of instruments is remarkable not only for the quality of many of them but, above all, for the number of items that have survived (ca. 600 items). Given such a wealth and variety of instruments, this study also offers the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct the cultural and social context of Lavoisier's experimental activities.

Contents

Foreword

 Robert G.W. Anderson

Preface

 Marco Beretta, Paolo Brenni

Abbreviations

Part 1: Lavoisier's Laboratory Networks

(Marco Beretta)

Introduction

1 The Chemical Laboratories in Paris (1743-1776)

 1.1 Chemistry Comes to Paris

 1.2 Rouelle's Laboratory

 1.3 Laboratory Life with Macquer and Baumé

2 Lavoisier's Approach to Chemical Instrument Making

 2.1 Lavoisier's Early Education in Science

 2.2 Chemical Instrument Making in Paris before 1770

 2.3 Lavoisier and Chemical Instrument Making

 2.4 Parisian Instrument Makers at the Arsenal

 2.5 Second-Hand Instruments

 2.6 The Laboratory Notebooks

 Table of Lavoisier's Laboratory Notebooks

3 Lavoisier's Sites of Experimental Practice: From the Field to the Laboratory (1764-1794)

 3.1 Sites of Experiments

 3.2 The Arsenal

4 The Cost of Lavoisier's Laboratory

 4.1 Was Chemistry Cheap or Expensive?

 4.2 The Cost of Lavoisier's Laboratory

 4.3 The Cost of Labour

 4.4 Deconstructing the Legend

5 The Chemical Revolution on Stage: Lavoisier's Collection of Instruments (1789-2020)

 5.1 The Chemical Revolution on Show (1789-1836)

 5.2 Instruments Enter French Politics: The Private and Public Fate of Lavoisier's Collection (1836-1900)

 5.3 The 1943 Exhibition: Lavoisier vs Nazi Germany

Appendix 1: Inventory of Lavoisier's Residence and Laboratory on the Boulevard de la Madeleine (1796)

Appendix 2: Inventory of Lavoisier's Laboratory by Nicolas Leblanc (1794)

Appendix 3: Inventory of Lavoisier's Precision and Chemical Instruments (1794)

Appendix 4: Select Inventory of Marie Anne Lavoisier's Residence in the Rue d'Anjou (1836)

Appendix 5: Inventory of Lavoisier's Instruments Acquired by the Conservatoire des arts et métiers in 1864

Appendix 6: Biographical Dictionary of Lavoisier's Instrument Makers and Suppliers of Chemicals

Part 2: Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Lavoisier's Instruments in the Musée des Arts et Métiers

(Marco Beretta, Paolo Brenni)

Introduction to the Catalogue

Metrology

 Measures of Length

 Measures of Volume

 Measures of Weight

Astronomy, Surveying, Drawing and Mathematics

 Astronomy

 Surveying Instruments

 Drawing and Geometrical Models

Experimental Physics

 Hydrostatics and Hydraulics

 Acoustics

 Pneumatics

 Thermology

 Optics

 Magnetism and Electricity

Meteorology

 Thermometers

 Barometers

 Miscellaneous

Chemistry

 Furniture

 Heating Apparatus and Common Laboratory Tools

 Models

 Chemical Apparatus

 Chemical Glassware

 Chemicals, Minerals and Various Substances

Miscellaneous

Fragments

General Bibliography

Index of Inventory Numbers

Index of Names