Table of Contents

One The Origins of the Chemical Revolution.- Ch. 1 Mixts According to the Atomists and According to the Peripatetics.- Ch. 2 The Notion of a Mixt in the Seventeenth Century.- Ch. 3 The Notion of a Mixt in the Eighteenth Century up to the Chemical Revolution: the Newtonian School.- Ch. 4 The Notion of a Mixt in the Eighteenth Century up to the Chemical Revolution: the Empiricist School.- Two From the Chemical Revolution to Our Time.- Ch. 1 Simple Substances.- Ch. 2 The Law of Definite Proportions.- Ch. 3 Crude Chemical Formulas and Equivalent Masses.- Ch. 4 Chemical Substitution.- Ch. 5 Chemical Types.- Ch. 6 Condensed Types, Valency and Developed Formulas.- Ch. 7 Isomers and Stereochemistry.- Ch. 8 The Atomic Theory: Critique of this Theory.- Ch. 9 Chemical Mechanics: First Attempts.- Ch. 10 Chemical Mechanics Based on Thermodynamics.- Conclusion.- Essays.- 1 Theories of Heat (1895).- 2 The Evolution of Physical Theories from the Seventeenth Century to Our Day (1896).- 3 Thermochemistry: in Connection with a Recent Book of Marcelin Berthelot (1897).- 4 The Phase Law, in Connection with a Recent Book of Wilder D. Bancroft (1898).- 5 A New Science: Physical Chemistry (1899).- 6 The Work of J. H. van ’t Hoff, in Connection with a Recent Book (1900).- 7 On Some Recent Extensions of Statics and Dynamics (1901).- 8 On Bodies and Mixtures or Combinations (1911).

Reviews

"Duhem's command of the historical development of atomism (of whose status as scientific theory he was critical) still makes for interesting reading despite today's very different concepts of chemical structure. His account of the development of thermodynamics, for Duhem "the apex of inductively derived abstract science" (see John Nye's Molecular Reality, 1972), is noteworthy for its clarity and simplicity. Both bibliography and index are good."
(E.R. Webster, emerita, Wellesley College in Choice, November 2002)