History of Chemistry

Scottish people don’t figure prominently in most histories of slave trade. When Scots are mentioned, people usually point to the writings of Adam Smith and

I have been using the Resist Bot to write faxes to my congressional representatives every time I’m outraged by something congress or the White House does - so

Alchemy, as a field of study, was thought to answer several different questions making it hard to define. Alchemy was used to study ontology; that is,

*This post is the first section of a talk I gave at the 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. In 1756, fifty-nine students attended William Cullen’s (1710…

For the last couple of years, I have been working with my colleague John Perkins on building a database called Situating Chemistry. With this database we have been collecting information about the …