Table of Contents

One The Origins of the Chemical Revolution.- Ch. 1 Mixts According to the Atomists and According to the Peripatetics.- Ch. 2 The Notion of a Mixt in the Seventeenth Century.- Ch. 3 The Notion of a Mixt in the Eighteenth Century up to the Chemical Revolution: the Newtonian School.- Ch. 4 The Notion of a Mixt in the Eighteenth Century up to the Chemical Revolution: the Empiricist School.- Two From the Chemical Revolution to Our Time.- Ch. 1 Simple Substances.- Ch. 2 The Law of Definite Proportions.- Ch. 3 Crude Chemical Formulas and Equivalent Masses.- Ch. 4 Chemical Substitution.- Ch. 5 Chemical Types.- Ch. 6 Condensed Types, Valency and Developed Formulas.- Ch. 7 Isomers and Stereochemistry.- Ch. 8 The Atomic Theory: Critique of this Theory.- Ch. 9 Chemical Mechanics: First Attempts.- Ch. 10 Chemical Mechanics Based on Thermodynamics.- Conclusion.- Essays.- 1 Theories of Heat (1895).- 2 The Evolution of Physical Theories from the Seventeenth Century to Our Day (1896).- 3 Thermochemistry: in Connection with a Recent Book of Marcelin Berthelot (1897).- 4 The Phase Law, in Connection with a Recent Book of Wilder D. Bancroft (1898).- 5 A New Science: Physical Chemistry (1899).- 6 The Work of J. H. van ’t Hoff, in Connection with a Recent Book (1900).- 7 On Some Recent Extensions of Statics and Dynamics (1901).- 8 On Bodies and Mixtures or Combinations (1911).