Chapter 8
Controversy and conversion
Friedrich Albert Carl Gren and the phlogiston controversy (1790–96)
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.A brief survey of the controversy
- 3.The debate on the negative weight of phlogiston
- 3.1Gren vs. Westrumb
- 3.2Gren vs. Mayer
- 4.Crucial experiments and further steps of retreat
- 4.1A second phase in the controversy
- 4.2A comparison of theories
- 4.3The notorious reduction experiment
- 4.4Gren’s conversion and its background
- 5.Handbooks as a vehicle of controversy
- 6.Concluding remarks: Life between two paradigms
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Notes
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Sources
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References