The 'absolute existence' of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view.

Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its ‘absolute existence’. We demonstrate that what was defended under the title ‘phlogiston’ was no longer a particular hypothesis about combustion and respiration. Rather, it was a set of ontological and epistemological assumptions and the empirical practices associated with them. Lavoisier’s gravimetric reduction, in the eyes of the phlogistians, annihilated the autonomy of chemistry together with its peculiar concepts of chemical substance and quality, chemical process and chemical affinity. The defence of phlogiston was the defence of a distinctly chemical conception of matter and its appearances, a conception which rejected the chemist’s acquaintance with details and particularities of substances, properties and processes and his skills of adducing causal relations from the interplay between their complexity and uniformity

Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work, ed. by R. J. Forbes, vol. Ill, ed. by E. Lefebvre and J. G. de Bruijn, vol. IV et V

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work, ed. by R. J. Forbes, vol. Ill, ed. by E. Lefebvre and J. G. de Bruijn, vol. IV et V. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 28, n°3, 1975. pp. 279-281

Mario Morselli, Amedeo Avogadro : A scientific Biography

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Mario Morselli, Amedeo Avogadro : A scientific Biography. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 39, n°3, 1986. Etude sur l'histoire du calcul infinitésimal. pp. 282-283

Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work, ed. by R. J. Forbes, vol. Ill, ed. by E. Lefebvre and J. G. de Bruijn, vol. IV et V

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work, ed. by R. J. Forbes, vol. Ill, ed. by E. Lefebvre and J. G. de Bruijn, vol. IV et V. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 28, n°3, 1975. pp. 279-281

Marcel Florkin, A History of Biochemistry, Parts I and II, by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Marcel Florkin, A History of Biochemistry, Parts I and II, by M. Florkin and E. H. Stotz. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 29, n°4, 1976. pp. 362-363

Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Leçons sur la philosophie chimique... recueillies par M. Bineau, suivi de L'Essai de statique chimique des êtres organisés, avec une introduction de A. Bruylants

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Leçons sur la philosophie chimique... recueillies par M. Bineau, suivi de L'Essai de statique chimique des êtres organisés, avec une introduction de A. Bruylants. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 27, n°2, 1974. pp. 179-182

La correspondance de Claude-Louis Berthollet et Martinus Van Marum (1786-1805).

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. La correspondance de Claude-Louis Berthollet et Martinus Van Marum (1786-1805).. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 25, n°3, 1972. pp. 221-252

Sir Harold Hartley, Studies in the History of Chemistry

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Sir Harold Hartley, Studies in the History of Chemistry. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 26, n°3, 1973. pp. 279-280

Michel Valentin, François Broussais, Empereur de la Médecine

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. Michel Valentin, François Broussais, Empereur de la Médecine. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 43, n°4, 1990. L'enseignement scientifique au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles. pp. 497-498

L'œuvre de Pascal et la Physique moderne

Sadoun Goupil Michelle. L'œuvre de Pascal et la Physique moderne. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, tome 16, n°1, 1963. pp. 23-52