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L'Éther, Élement Chimique: Un Essai Malheureux De Mendéléev?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
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UER d'histoire, Université de Paris I, 17 Rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, France.

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1982

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References

1 Pour situer la contribution de Mendéléev dans l'ensemble des recherches d'une classification des éléments au 19ème siècle, voir Van Spronsen, J. W., The periodic System of chemical elements, A history of the first hundred years, Amsterdam, London, New York, 1969Google Scholar; and his ‘Mendéléev as a Speculator’, J. Chem. Educ. 1981, 58, 790–91.Google Scholar

2 Mendéléev, , Principes de chimieGoogle Scholar, traduction française Aschkinasi, M. E. et Carrion, M. H., T. II, p. 470Google Scholar; traduction anglaise, Principles of chemistry, London, 1905.Google Scholar

3 Mendéléev, D. I., ‘Loi périodique des éléments chimiques’, Le Moniteur Scientifique, 1879, p. 693Google Scholar; trad. anglaise, Chemical News 1879, 40, 231, 243, 255, 267, 279, 291, 303Google Scholar; 1880, 41, 2, 27, 39, 49, 61, 71, 83, 93, 106, 113, 125. Reprinted in Knight, D. M.Classical Scientific Papers, Chemistry, II, London 1970, 273309.Google Scholar

4 Mendéléev, D. I.. Principes de chimie, T.II, p. 485Google Scholar, note 17.

5 Vincent-Bensaude, voir B. V., Les pièges de l'elémentaire, Contribution à l'histoire de lélement chimique, thèse de doctorat d'etat, Paris I, 1981.Google Scholar

6 Mendéléev, D. I., An attempt towards a chemical conception of the ether, London, New York, Bombay, 1904, p. 9.Google Scholar

7 Mendéléev, D. I., Faraday Lecture, Le Moniteur scientifique, iii, (1889), p. 895–96Google Scholar; Journal of the chemical society, 1889, 55, 647–48Google Scholar; sur ces tentatives de réduction des éléments à l'unite Knight, voir D. M., The transcendental part of chemistry, Folkestone 1978Google Scholar, spécialement, chap. 9.

8 Mendéléev, D. I., op. cit. supra (6), p. 17.Google Scholar

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11 Mendéléev, D. I., op. cit. supra (4), p. 7.Google Scholar

12 Ibid. p. 15.

13 Ibid. p. 14.

14 Ibid. p. 13.

15 Ibid. p. 18.

16 Ibid. p. 50–1.

17 Mendéléev, D. I., Chemical News, 1889, 40, 1, 15, 30.Google Scholar

18 Mendéléev, D. I., op. cit. supra (4), p. 15.Google Scholar