Dec 28, 2014
Reflections on chemistry by Michel Eugene Chevreul on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Dec 25, 2014
A discussion of Carl Scheele, Joseph Priestly, Antoine Lavoisier and the discovery of oxygen.
Dec 22, 2014
An examination of the work in pneumatic chemistry from Black to Lavoisier that established chemistry as an fully experimental science. A discussion of the rise and fall of the phlogiston hypothesis as a scientific case study is included.
Dec 14, 2014
From Bruno to Boscovitch, this episode of the podcast suveys the development of the intellectual and experimental lanscape of Renaissance Europe as it moves closer to answer the question of the nature of matter.
Dec 11, 2014
In this supplemental episode we look at the scholarly work of the first of the great Arabic "hakim" and the foundations of developing a scientific method.