Atomic Theory Manual
SophomoreSophomore Natural Natural Science Science An Introduction to the Atomic Theory Sophomore Natural Science Revised 2007 Thomas Aquinas College Revised 20172016 ©2017 This Thomas Aquinas College Sophomore Natural Science Manual is a modified and expanded version of the St. John’s College Freshman Laboratory Atomic Theory Manual. We thank St. John’s College for permission to use much of their manual. The original source for many, but not all, of the selections and editorial footnotes in the present manual is A Source Book in Chemistry: 1400-1900, eds. H. Leicester and H. Klickstein (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952). TABLE OF CONTENTS ATOMIC THEORY MANUAL Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 CHAPTER I: Aristotle’s Account of Chemistry and the Elements……………………………. 5 St. Thomas Aquinas, Proemium to In Libros De Generatione et Corruptione…………… 6 St. Thomas Aquinas, De Principiis Naturae, ch. 3, on “element”………………………….. 8 St. Thomas Aquinas, De Mixtione Elementorum…………………………………………… 9 Aristotle, Selections from On Coming to Be and Passing Away, bk. 1, chs. 1-4 and 10; bk. 2, chs. 1-3…………………….. 14 CHAPTER II: Modern Chemistry, Its New Language, and the Elements……………………… 31 The Problem of Classifying Substances…………………………………………………….. 31 An Introduction to the Phlogiston Theory…………………………………………………… 35 Lavoisier, Memoir on the Calcination of Tin and on the Cause of the Gain in Weight…….. 38 Lavoisier, Memoir on the Nature of the Principle that Combines with Metals During Calcination…………………………… 48 Lavoisier, Memoir on Combustion in General………………………………………………. 52 Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, Preface…………………………………………………... 57 Morveau, Memoir on Chemical Names……………………………………………………… 65 Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, Fourcroy, Method of Chemical Nomenclature……………. 66 Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, chs. 1-2………………………………………………….
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