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标题：The Reality of Phlogiston in Great Britain"
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作者：John Stewart
期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2012
卷号：18
期号：2
页码：175-194
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：Mi Gyung Kim (2008) has challenged the historiographical assump-tion that phlogiston was the paradigmatic concept in eighteenth century chemistry. Her analysis of the operational, theoretical, and philosophical iden-tities of phlogiston demons trates how Stahlian phlogisto n was appropriated into the burgeoning field of affinity theory. However, this new French con-ception of phlogiston was destabilized by the introduction of Boerhaave's thermometrics. By extending this story through 1790, I will show that British pneumatic chemists integrated new understandings of heat with an affinity based operational definition of phlogiston and thereby stabilized the concept. What resulted was a new and very different phlogiston
关键词：Eighteenth-century chemistry; Chemical Revolution; historical ontolo-;gy; Richard Kirwan; phlogiston; fire