The Birth of Modern Chemistry
D. McKie, Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science in the University of London, gives the ninth of sixteen talks by various speakers on the origins and results of the Scientific Revolution
Previous talks in this series have described how great advances in astronomy, mechanics, and medicine were among the first results of the seventeenth-century revolution in scientific thought. This talk describes how a century later, after the ' phlogiston ' theory of combustion had been finally rejected, the work of Lavoisier laid the foundations of modern chemistry.