BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 34, Number 2, 2009

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
Introduction to the English Translation of "Theory of Dissociation"	William B. Jensen University of Cincinnati	73
Primary Documents - "The Theory of Dissociation"	A. Horstmann	76
August Horstmann and the Origins of Chemical Thermodynamics	William B. Jensen University of Cincinnati	83
A Woman in Biochemistry and Toxicology: The Polish-British Refugee Regina Schoental	Anthony S. Travis Jacques Loeb Centre, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	92
Some Notes on the Early History of Nitric Acid: 1300-1700	Vladimir Karpenko Charles Univeristy, Czech Republic	105
British Women and Chemistry from the 16th to the Mid-19th Century	Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham Sir Wilfred Grenfell College	117
An 1815 Perspective of Chlorine as a Chemical Agent used in Bleaching - A Section from James Rennie's Essay on Bleaching	Frederick G. Page Wychbourne Kington Herefordshire HR5 3AQ. UK	124
On Two Letters from Caspar Neumann to John Woodward Revealing the Secret Method for the Preparation of Prussian Blue	Alexander Kraft Gesimat GmbH, Berlin	134
The Biography of a Periodic Spiral: From Chemistry Magazine, via Industry, to a Foucault Pendulum	Otto Theodor Benfey Guilford College and the Chemical Heritage Foundation	141

Book Reviews
Chemistry at Oxford: A History from 1600 to 2005 Reviewed by Otto Theodor Benfey	R. J. P. Williams, J. S. Rowlinson, and A. Chapman 2009	146
The Dyson Perrins Laboratory and Oxford Organic Chemistry 1916 - 2004 Reviewed by Jeffrey I. Seeman	Rachel Curtis, Catherine Leith, Joshua Nall, and John Jones 2008	148
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Reviewed by Judah Ginsberg	Steven Johnson 2008	151
The Language of Mineralogy - John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800 Reviewed by Warren Alexander Dym	M. D. Eddy 2008	153
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution Reviewed by William B. Jensen	A. D. Morrison-Low 2007	154
Chronologie Chemie: Entdecker und Entdeckungen Från Lavoiser till Strindberg: Kemihistoriska föreläsningar Naissance de la chimie structural Reviewed by William B. Jensen	Sieghard Neufeld 2003 Levi Tansjö 2008 Alain Dumon and Robert Luft 2008	155
Das Dictionnaire de Chymie von Pierre Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) Reviewed by Alan J. Rocke	Katja Schmiederer 2008	156
What a Time I am Having Reviewed by Paul R. Jones	Vivien Perutz, Ed. 2009	157

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American Chemical Society Division of the History of Chemistry

BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 34, Number 2, 2009

American Chemical Society

Division of the History of Chemistry