The Practical Problems of ‘New’ Experimental Science: Spectro-Chemistry and the Search for Hitherto Unknown Chemical Elements in Britain 1860

The Practical Problems of ‘New’ Experimental Science: Spectro-Chemistry and the Search for Hitherto Unknown Chemical Elements in Britain 1860–1869

Published:1988-06 Issue:2 Volume:21 Page:181-194
ISSN:0007-0874
Container-title:The British Journal for the History of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Brit. J. Hist. Sci

Author:

James Frank A. J. L.

Abstract

On the morning of Friday the fourth of December 1863, August Hofmann, professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Chemistry in London, lectured at the College on spectro-chemical analysis to Victoria, the Princess Royal, Princess of Prussia and eldest daughter of the Queen and the severely missed late Prince Consort. This event illustrates the spectacular success that the fledgling science of spectro-chemical analysis enjoyed during the 1860s.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History

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