A dictionary of arts and sciences /

Gregory, Geoff; Cooper, Robert D.; Heath, Charles; Neele, Samuel John

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“…Siegfried () alleged that among the ‘central assumptions’ of Lavoisier was oxygen as the principle of acidity; however, he had early on noted (Siegfried and Dobbs, , p. 281) that oxygen was seen as important by Gregory () not because it provided a theory of acidification, but because it allowed phlogiston to be discarded as a component part of certain bodies and the correct order of simplicity to be established. Siegfried in 2002 retreated from his 1988 view, and returned to a view close to that of Gregory; this view entailed that the incorrect part of Lavoisier's theory of acidity, although noteworthy, did not affect Lavoisier's fertile compositional theories.…”

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On Lavoisier's Achievement in Chemistry

Blumenthal¹

2012

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Methodological recommendations common during the last 30 years have not prevented the emergence of views which are arguably no less caricatured and incorrect than was previously the case, even when account is taken of the heavily biased, mainly nationalistic, accounts concerning Lavoisier from the century after 1835. This article considers many of the categories of Lavoisier's achievement in chemistry, considers some of the more startling issues in the recent historiography, including negative accounts by Bensaude‐Vincent (1993), Siegfried (1988), Kim (2003) and Chang (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012), and contributes towards a process of identifying a judicious view.

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Section: Air Oxides and Aciditymentioning

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On Lavoisier's Achievement in Chemistry

Blumenthal¹

2012

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“…Jahrhundert gleichzeitig in deutschen, franzaesischen und englischen Lexika. Selbst im 1807 erschienenen, bloû zweibåndigen Dictionary of Arts and Sciences wurde dem Schnabeltier unter ,Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus`und unter ,Platypusv iel Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet und gar behauptet 44 , daû das Tier may in general be looked upon as one of the most interesting discoveries with which the part of natural history has been enriched during the last century.…”

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Vom Wesen der langz?ngigen Schl?rfm?use: Das Schnabeltier und die Entwicklung der Informationsgesellschaft

Herren

2002

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In 1798, the skin of a platypus started to disturb the European scientific community. Even before researchers confirmed that the furry animal with a duck's bill was an egg-laying mammal, the platypus was a challenge to contemporary taxonomies. Although a scientific interest in the platypus is self-evident, the animal's appearance in encyclopaedias and dictionaries needs an explanation. The essay discusses the presence of the platypus in the encyclopaedias of the 19th and 20th century by asking why a rare animal without economic significance came into an encyclopaedia where knowledge had to be reduced to information of general interest. Therefore, the transformation of the platypus in a part of general knowledge describes the presence of order even outside the philosophical discourse described by Foucault. As a visual expression of order, the platypus gives an example how knowledge and society are connected, and how a social and cultural context influenced the supposed objective description of an animal.

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

Jensen¹

2021

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A dictionary of arts and sciences /

Cited by 61 publications

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On Lavoisier's Achievement in Chemistry

On Lavoisier's Achievement in Chemistry

Vom Wesen der langz?ngigen Schl?rfm?use: Das Schnabeltier und die Entwicklung der Informationsgesellschaft

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

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