Marie Curie Gilbert N. Lewis Linus Pauling James Chadwick
Historically important chemists.
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CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS:
GAINING INSIGHT FROM EARLY TEXTBOOKS
Marie Curie Gilbert N. Lewis
Linus Pauling
James Chadwick
Historically important chemists.
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http://murov.info/periodictables.htm http://murov.info/periodictabcol.htm
By reviewing old chemistry textbooks, it is possible to follow the development or evolution of many of our present day chemistry concepts. This learning exercise can sometimes lead to a better understanding of concepts than can be gained by traditional chemistry exercises. This site provides links to many texts that are available free on the Internet. Printing of the material does results in a product that is a little more difficult to read than should be necessary but it is readable. Students can be assigned a text, a chapter or even specific pages and asked to critically evaluate the content. One possible approach is to assign a topic or thread that has undergone significant improvement in understanding such as atomic composition, bonding and molecular structure. Differences between present day understanding and the the discussion in the texts should not be considered to have been errors as there was limited and insufficient information available at the time to develop accurate concepts and explanations. A PowerPoint site has also been posted that contains examples from texts that have been published since 1921.
http://murov.info/chemistryhistory.pptx
Other chemistry web sites by this author that might be of interest to chemistry instructors are listed below. The second through the fifth also have historical content.
http://murov.info
http://murov.info/periodictables.htm
http://murov.info/periodictable.pptx
http://murov.info/periodictabcol.htm
http://murov.info/timelines.htm
http://murov.info/organicmilestones.htm
http://murov.info/chemexe.htm
http://exercises.murov.info/chemexercises.htm
http://murov.info/Reaction-Map.htm
https://archive.org/search?query=chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed075p961
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed072p767
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed075p817
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed075p679
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed052p179
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00273
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed032p593
https://doi.org/10.1021/ed069pA167.1
Selection of Chemistry Textbooks from 19th and Early 20th
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about 1790
https://archive.org/details/elementschemist00kerrgoog
(published
in 1965) Lavoisier
1801
1810
https://archive.org/details/elementschemist00thomgoog
1860
https://archive.org/details/principleschemi01peirgoog
1860
https://archive.org/details/chemistry01wilsgoog
1861
1863
https://archive.org/details/chemistry00brangoog
1865
1872
1873
https://archive.org/details/chemistryforstu01willgoog
1874
1876
https://archive.org/details/newchemistry06cookgoog
1879
1882
https://archive.org/details/chemistry06roscgoog
1885
1891
https://archive.org/details/principleschemi02mendgoog
Mendeleev
1894
https://archive.org/details/elementarychemi00whitgoog
1897
1897
1897
1898
https://archive.org/details/atextbookchemis01coblgoog
1900
https://archive.org/details/modernchemistry00ramsgoog/page/n15/mode/2up
Ramsay
1901
1902
1902
1902
https://archive.org/details/atextbookinorga06newtgoog
1902
https://archive.org/details/atextbookinorga06newtgoog
1902
https://archive.org/details/atextbookinorga00newtgoog
1903
1903
https://archive.org/details/elementarychemi00bradgoog
1903
https://archive.org/details/descriptivechemi00newerich
1904
https://archive.org/details/elementarychemi00linegoog
1904
1909
1911
https://archive.org/details/contemporaryche00dalgoog
1911
1912
1913
https://archive.org/details/essentialschemi04smitgoog
1914
https://archive.org/details/generalchemistr00unkngoog
1915
https://archive.org/details/firstcourseinch01hendgoog
1916
https://archive.org/details/generalchemistr01cadygoog
1916
1917
1918
1918
https://archive.org/details/generalchemistr05smitgoog
1921
1921
https://archive.org/details/elementaryprinc00fullgoog
1921
1923
1927
https://archive.org/details/PrinciplesOfChemistry/page/n3/mode/2up
Mendeleev