BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 51, Number 1, 2026

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
Why Materials? A Retrospective of 25+ Years of Historical Research	Seth C. Rasmussen	1-11
Welcome to the 18^th Century	Carmen J. Giunta	12
Prefatory Essay: Chemical Philosophy of Composition	Gary D. Patterson	13-16
The Chemistry Community at the Start of the 18^th Century	Gary D. Patterson	17-23
Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742): Life and Main Contributions to Chemistry	Nicolay V. Tsarevsky	24-28
Georg Ernst Stahl—The Origins and His Motivation for the Development of the Phlogiston Theory	Christine Hahn	39-55
The Enlightened Chemistry of Fires and Airs	Mi Gyung Kim	56-70
Attempts During the Eighteenth Century to Quantitate Chemical Affinities in Order to Predict the Courses of Chemical Reactions	Arthur Greenberg	71-82
Chemistry in the Mid-18^th Century	Gary D. Patterson	83-88
Henry Cavendish: Catalyst for the Chemical Revolution?	Carmen J. Giunta	89-98
The Law of Conservation of Matter: Lomonosov and Lavoisier	David E. Lewis	99-113
Electrochemistry in the 18^th Century	Gary D. Patterson	114-123
Torbern Bergman and the Role of Scandinavia in 18^th Century Chemistry	Gary D. Patterson	124-133
Fourcroy and the End of the 18^th Century in France	Gary D. Patterson	134-143
René-Just Haüy (1743-1822): Early Difficulties with Chemistry, Some Successes With Geometry, and an Unresolved Tension	Michael Jewess and Carmen Schmechel	144-156
Chemistry at the End of the 18^th Century	Gary D. Patterson	157-163

BOOK REVIEWS
Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science Reviewed by Arthur Greenberg	Philip Ball 2025	164-167
Every Molecule Matters Reviewed by Mary Virginia Orna	Simon Cotton 2026	167-169
The Birth of the 3rd Dimension in Chemistry Reviewed by Christoph Kießling	Arthur Greenberg and David E. Lewis, Eds. 2025	170-172
Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists: Some Supportive British Male Chemists and Their Women Students (1880-1930) Reviewed by Bethany G. Anderson	Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham 2024	172-174
Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science Reviewed by Carmen J. Giunta	Douglas Allchin 2025	174-177
The Polymer Revolution. A Journey Through Polymer Science Reviewed by Seth C. Rasmussen	Peter J. T. Morris 2023	177-181
The Origins and Early History of Conjugated Organic Polymers Reviewed by Robert M. Pankow	Seth C. Rasmussen 2025	181-182
Prizes are Good but Discoveries are Better Reviewed by Jeffrey I. Seeman	Albert Eschenmoser 2025	182-189

2026 HIST Award		190

Instructions for Authors		191

The Back Story We Mean More Than What We Say. The Role of Community and Its Unwritten Text	Roald Hoffmann and Jeffrey I. Seeman	192-195
A Bonus Back Story A Team Effort and the Role of Community in Chemistry	Jeffrey I. Seeman	195-196

Bulletin Editorial Staff		197
HIST Officers 2026		197

American Chemical Society

Division of the History of Chemistry

BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 51, Number 1, 2026

The Cover. Apparatus from Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks. See p56.

American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry

BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 51, Number 1, 2026

The Cover. Apparatus from Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks. See p56.

American Chemical Society

Division of the History of Chemistry