Chemical revolution

Geoffroy's 1718 **Affinity Table**: at the head of each column is a chemical species with which all the species below can combine. Some historians have defined this table as being the start of the chemical revolution.^[1]

In the history of chemistry, the chemical revolution, also called the first chemical revolution, was the reformulation of chemistry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which culminated in the law of conservation of mass and the oxygen theory of combustion.

During the 19th and 20th century, this transformation was credited to the work of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (the "father of modern chemistry").^[2] However, recent work on the history of early modern chemistry considers the chemical revolution to consist of gradual changes in chemical theory and practice that emerged over a period of two centuries.^[3]^[4] The so-called scientific revolution took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whereas the chemical revolution took place during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.^[5]

^ Kim, Mi Gyung (2003). Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-11273-4.
^ The First Chemical Revolution Archived April 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine – the Instrument Project, The College of Wooster
^ Eddy, Matthew Daniel; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. (January 2014). "An Introduction to Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World". Osiris. 29 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1086/678110. PMID 26103744.
^ Florin George Calian. Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa. Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy.
^ Eddy, Matthew D.; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. (2015). Osiris, Volume 29: Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World. University of Chicago Press Journals. ISBN 978-0-226-15839-6.^{[page needed]}

[Kim-1] Kim, Mi Gyung (2003). Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-11273-4.

[2] The First Chemical Revolution Archived April 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine – the Instrument Project, The College of Wooster

[3] Eddy, Matthew Daniel; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. (January 2014). "An Introduction to Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World". Osiris. 29 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1086/678110. PMID 26103744.

[4] Florin George Calian. Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa. Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy.

[5] Eddy, Matthew D.; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. (2015). Osiris, Volume 29: Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World. University of Chicago Press Journals. ISBN 978-0-226-15839-6.^{[page needed]}

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