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• French chemist, 1700s

• Developed methods for precise measurements

• Discovered law of Conservation of Mass, proved matter could not be created, destroyed

• Recognized, named oxygen, introduced metric system, invented first periodic table

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier• Father of modern chemistry

• First to define element

• The Sceptical Chemist, 1661, described matter as cluster of tiny particles (now called atoms)

• Changes in matter occurred when clusters rearranged

• Boyle’s law - temperature, volume, pressure affect gases

Robert Boyle

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Robert Boyle

• The work of Robert Boyle in chemistry was also based on close observation and experiment.

Robert Boyle: 1627 – 1691AD• Irish chemist• Inspired by Bacon• First to prove that

alchemy did not work• However, he still thought

that gold was a compound and could be made if you mixed the right elements.

• Wrote a new book suggesting a theory about chemicals but did not have the proof to support it

• Boyle suggested that some basic chemicals could not be divided up into any other basic kinds.

• These were called elements and each element was a type of atom.

• Other more complex chemical mixtures were called compounds.

Robert Boyle(1627-1691)

• Through careful experimentation, Boyle established chemistry as a pure science

• experiments using a vacuum Discovered “Boyle’s Law” : the idea that the volume of gas

varies inversely with pressure Studied the physical nature of air, through numerous Supported corpuscularism: a form of atomism which discussed

reality and change in terms of particles and their motion Boyle thought that chemical experiments would be able to

show the truth of corpuscularism Made use of Hooke’s microscope Used an air pump to prove that sound travels through air Completed numerous experiments on air by burning a candle in

a closed air pump

Boyle Cont. • Spent time at Oxford during the English Civil Wars,

where he worked with a group experimenting– The group was committed to the New Philosophy,

which emphasized observation and experiment as having equal importance to logical thinking in scientific discovery and comprehension

– Foreshadowed the Royal Society, founded in 1660– Here, Boyle came in contact with numerous

philosophical writings including those of Gassendi and Descartes

All of Boyle’s writing were published in English and in Latin translations

Boyle

• Boyle’s work encouraged scientists to mix chemicals in a more scientific way

• He founded a brand new science---chemistry!

BOYLE

Boyle’s first air pump Boyle’s New Experiments and ObservationsTouching Cold - 1683

Boyle and Lavoisier

• He formulated Boyle’s Law about gases—the volume of a gas varies with the pressure exerted on it.

• In the eighteenth century Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry, invented a system of naming the chemical elements.

Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794 AD

• French• Member of the French

Academy of Sciences• Worked on a report on

the Paris water supply• In 1772, he found that

all chemicals could exist as a gas, a liquid, and a solid depending on how hot they were.

• In the 1772, Lavoisier found that oxygen is needed for both rusting and burning. He discovered the process called oxidation.

• He also showed that water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen.

Lavoisier

• Insisted that all the chemicals he used should be carefully weighed and accurate records should be made of all his experiments.

• Chemists had not always done this in the past.

• This made it possible for the experiments to be duplicated and verified.

Antoine Lavoisier(1743-1794)

• French chemist

• Through scientific experiments found that materials do not give off phlogiston when burned and that in fact they consume oxygen

– Realized that oxygen is also responsible for acidity, which explains why he called it oxygen (Greek for acid-former)

– Showed that organisms disassemble and reassemble air in the same way that something does when it burns

• Considered the father of modern chemistry

• Lighted the streets of Paris

• Through experiment proved that the transmutation of water is impossible

• Established the Law of Conservation of Mass which states that matter can never be created or destroyed; it can only change form

• Using the experiments of John Priestly, Lavoisier showed that air is made of two parts; However, he tried to take the credit

– One part was oxygen and the other he called azote (Greek for no life)

Lavoisier Cont. • Discovered Cavendish’s inflammable gas which he called hydrogen,

Greek for water-former

• Invented a system of chemical nomenclature which he explained in his book Methods of Chemical Nomenclature (1787)

• Created the first modern chemical textbook, Elementary Treatise of Chemistry, 1789, which presented new theories, Law of Conservation of Mass, denial of the existence of phlogiston, and a list of elements

• Believed that the real existence of atoms was philosophically impossible

• Used a calorimeter to estimate the amount of heat created per unit of carbon dioxide created through combustion

• Believed the radical theory – that radicals when functioning as one group in a reaction would combine with oxygen

• Believed all acids containing oxygen

• Lavoisier was beheaded during the French Revolution

Lavoisier• "I have tried...to arrive at the truth by linking up facts; to suppress as much

as possible the use of reasoning, which is often an unreliable instrument which deceives us, in order to follow as much as possible the torch of observation and of experiment." - Lavoisier

Lavoisier working in his Laboratory

Marie Lavoisier:

• Married to Antoine Lavoisier at the age of 13

• Translated English and Latin essays and books for her husband, Antoine Lavoisier

• Condensed articles for him

• Illustrated, edited, and published his work

• Studied chemistry and learned English during her teenage years

• Often argued whether she was an aide to Antoine or a large influence on his work as a contributor who has gained no credit

• Following her husband’s death, Marie ran a scientific salon

Marie Lavoisier

Marie’s drawing of a gazometer

in Antoine’s Elementary

Treatise of Chemistry

Marie with Antoine

Joseph Priestley(1733-1804)

• English chemist and clergyman• Conducted experiments on the properties of air • Studied carbon dioxide; this led to his invention of carbonated

beverages• Examined air emitting from numerous substances• Isolated and characterized eight gases, including oxygen • Contributed to the understanding of photosynthesis and

respiration• Continually argued with Lavoisier over how to interpret the

results of experiments of gases – Priestley used phlogiston – hypothetical principle of flammability that

was thought to give metals their characteristics of luster and ductility; widely used to explain combustion, etc.

• Completed experiments with candles, plants, and mice in air pumps

• The "goodness" of air, a measure of its respirability, interested Priestley. In 1771 he noted the restoration of "injured" or depleted air by green plants. He wrote,

• The injury which is continually done to the atmosphere by the respiration of such a large number of animals...is, in part at least, repaired by the vegetable creation. (5)

• This balance between animal and plant kingdoms is particularly relevant to our present environmental concerns over global warming and rainforest destruction.

• Joseph Priestley simplified experimental techniques for the preparation and collection of gases.

• his pneumatic trough of 1772 was an admirable apparatus. Gases soluble in water, previously difficult to collect, were collected successfully over mercury.

• in Wiltshire, England, on August 1, 1774 Priestley focused sunlight through a lens in order to heat a sample of mercuric oxide (red calx).

• The resulting gas supported the burning of a candle with a vigorous flame, was essentially insoluble in water, and accommodated a mouse under glass for some time. In Priestley's own words,

• I have discovered an air five or six times as good as common air. (5)

Priestley Cont. • Religion:

– Educated to be a minister in churches opposing the Church of England

– Spent much of his life as a preacher or teacher Supported both the French and American Revolutions Emigrated to the United States after a mob attacked and

destroyed his house and laboratory in 1791 Planned to create a model community with his sons, but

this never materialized Influenced and encouraged to study by Ben Franklin

Caused Priestley to work with electricity

• Among his accomplishments during his years in Birmingham were the publication of the first part of Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, an attempt to defend natural religion against the skepticism of David Hume; a History of the Corruptions of Christianity, a direct attack on the central tenets of orthodox religion, particularly the doctrine of the Trinity; and a History of the Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, where he set out to prove that the doctrine of the Trinity was not according to Scripture.

• These three works catalyzed storms of controversy.

• Priestley was attacked in pamphlets and periodicals, denounced in pulpits and in the House of Commons, and considered as an agent of the Devil because of his unorthodox views.

• Under the Test and Corporation Acts in England, the Dissenter was deprived of the rights of citizenship, and , by law, the Unitarian was not even tolerated.

• When the French Revolution broke out, the sympathies of the Dissenters lay with those who were struggling under the yoke of corruption, tyranny and oppression.

• Two years later, festivities were planned to celebrate the auspicious event.

• On the 11th of July, 1791 a local newspaper printed an advertisement for a dinner to be held at a leading hotel on July 14, to commemorate the auspicious day (Bastille Day) which witnessed the Emancipation of Twenty-six Millions of People from the yoke of Despotism . . .(1)

• The dinner was attended by eighty one men and ended without incident.• Dr. Priestley had declined to attend, to the disappointment of the crowd

that had gathered to demonstrate their contrary views to Priestley's revolutionary and heretical writings.

• By evening, the crowd reconvened and, fueled by liquor, sacked and burned the New Meetinghouse where Priestley preached.

• The Old Meetinghouse was sacked and burned, too. • Warned of the murderous multitude, Priestley and his wife left Fairhill, with

nothing more than the clothes we happened to have on. They did not realize the magnitude of the danger they were in and stopped at a friend's house a mile away.

• There they received information that the mob was now at their house looking for them.

• They moved again a little farther away but not far enough for Priestley to be spared the sight of the holocaust that engulfed his home, his laboratory and especially his library which contained precious manuscripts of works, some of which were as yet unpublished.

• Priestley fled to London and was never to return to Birmingham. He moved to Tottenham and then to Hackney.

• During the following months, Priestley was verbally attacked in the House of Commons, burned in effigy, portrayed in caricatures, denounced in pulpits and subjected to threatening letters.

• Priestley had by now become an honorary citizen of France which was at war with England.

• He was snubbed by the Royal Society and was forced to resign his membership when several of his colleagues turned against him.

• His sons were unable to find work in the area and decided to emigrate to America.

• He and his wife decided to join them. They sailed from Gravesend on the Samson on April 7, 1794, two weeks after Priestley's 61st birthday.

• While the Priestleys were on their journey to America, Laviosier met his death at the guillotine in the Place de la Revolution.

• The Priestleys landed in New York and proceeded to the capital, Philadelphia. He refused the offer of a chair in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, choosing instead to join his son, Joseph, and friend, Thomas Cooper, who were establishing a colony for English Dissenters in central Pennsylvania.

• He moved 130 miles to the north and settled in the small town of Northumberland on the banks of the Susquehanna River.

• Within the year, the youngest Priestley son, Harry, died, as did Joseph's wife.

• Priestley remained active, writing, preaching and experimenting in his newly established laboratory, but the old fire and cheerfulness were gone.

• Michael Faraday, Address delivered at the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Dr Priestley (1833)

• Dr. Priestley had that freedom of mind, and that independence of dogma and of preconceived notions, by which men are so often bowed down and carried forward from fallacy to fallacy, their eyes not being opened to see what that fallacy is. I am very anxious at this time to exhort you all, - as I trust you all are pursuers of science, - to attend to these things; for DR Priestley made his great discoveries mainly in consequence of his having a mind which could be easily moved from what it had held to the reception of new thoughts and notions; and I will venture to say that all his discoveries followed from the facility with which he could leave a preconceived idea.

Priestley

Examples of Priestley’s equipment

“Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.” -Priestley

Henry Cavendish: 1731 – 1810 AD

• British• Was worth over one

hundred million pounds• Son of a Lord and the

grandson of the Duke of Devonshire

• Spent most of his life doing science experiments at home alone

• He discovered a whole range of new gasses

• In 1776 he added acid to marble and the gas that was given off was called fixed air.

• He then dripped acid onto iron, and another gas was given off. It seemed that this gas was lighter than air and burnt so easily, so he called it “fire air.”---What we know now as hydrogen.

Karl Scheele: 1742 – 1786 AD

• Swedish• Was a druggist’s

assistant• Made a series of

discoveries in the 1770s and 1780s

• He discovered five elements: chlorine, barium, manganese, moylbdenum, and nitrogen.

• He also discovered a green dye made up of copper and poisonous arsenic.

• He found out how to extract phosphorus from animal bones instead of urine.

• He claimed Priestly and Lavoisier stole his discovery of oxygen.

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