https://johnstewart.me/tags/history-of-chemistry/Recent content in History of Chemistry on John StewartHugoen-usMon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/transcribing-historical-documents-with-ai/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/transcribing-historical-documents-with-ai/A handwritten page from an eighteenth-century chemistry lecture set shows how quickly AI transcription is changing what historians can do with manuscript archives.https://johnstewart.me/history/chemistry-and-slavery-in-the-scottish-enlightenment/Wed, 27 May 2020 12:40:27 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/chemistry-and-slavery-in-the-scottish-enlightenment/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 andhttps://johnstewart.me/personal/open-letter-to-sen-jim-inhofe/Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:03:50 -0500https://johnstewart.me/personal/open-letter-to-sen-jim-inhofe/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 - sohttps://johnstewart.me/history/a-brief-history-of-alchemy/Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:33:18 -0600https://johnstewart.me/history/a-brief-history-of-alchemy/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,https://johnstewart.me/history/situating-chemistry-creating-a-database-of-18th-c-chemists/Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:14:02 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/situating-chemistry-creating-a-database-of-18th-c-chemists/*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…https://johnstewart.me/history/open-notes-for-deep-maps/Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:39:22 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/open-notes-for-deep-maps/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 …