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    The ‘absolute existence’ of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view.Victor D. Boantza & Ofer Gal - 2011 - British Journal for the History of Science 44 (3):317-342.
    Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its ‘absolute existence’. We demonstrate that what was defended under the title ‘phlogiston’ was no longer a particular hypothesis about combustion and respiration. Rather, it was a set of ontological and epistemological assumptions and the empirical practices associated with them. Lavoisier's gravimetric reduction, in the eyes of the phlogistians, annihilated the autonomy of chemistry together (...)
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    The Rise and Fall of Nitrous Air Eudiometry: Enlightenment Ideals, Embodied Skills, and the Conflicts of Experimental Philosophy.Victor D. Boantza - 2013 - History of Science 51 (4):377-412.
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    Alkahest and fire: Debating matter, chymistry, and natural history at the early Parisian academy of sciences.Victor D. Boantza - 2010 - In Charles T. Wolfe & Ofer Gal (eds.), The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science. Springer. pp. 75--92.
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    Erratum to: The uses of style and the ‘big picture’ history of science.Victor D. Boantza - 2014 - Metascience 24 (1):169-169.
    Erratum to: Metascience DOI 10.1007/s11016-014-9881-zIn the version of this essay review initially published, in the final paragraph and in the reference list, the last name of the author H. Floris Cohen was incorrectly written as Cohen Floris.
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    For the love of science: the correspondence of J. H. de Magellan.Victor D. Boantza - forthcoming - Annals of Science:1-2.
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    Mechanism and agency in science from premodern automata to cybernetics: Jessica Riskin: The restless clock: a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, 544pp, $30.00 PB.Victor D. Boantza - 2017 - Metascience 27 (1):59-62.
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    The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle.Victor D. Boantza - 2009 - Annals of Science 66 (4):570-572.
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    The Enlightenment of Joseph Black.Victor D. Boantza - 2016 - Annals of Science 73 (3):328-332.
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    The uses of style and the ‘big picture’ history of science: Chunglin Kwa: Styles of knowing: A new history of science from ancient times to the present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011, 376pp, $27.95 PB.Victor D. Boantza - 2014 - Metascience 23 (3):625-631.
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    Vera Keller, Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725. Reviewed by.Victor D. Boantza - 2019 - Philosophy in Review 39 (1):23-25.
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    Collecting airs and ideas: Priestley’s style of experimental reasoning.Victor D. Boantza - 2007 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (3):506-522.
    It has often been claimed that Priestley was a skilful experimenter who lacked the capacities to analyze his own experiments and bring them to a theoretical closure. In attempts to revise this view some scholars have alluded to Priestley’s ‘synoptic’ powers while others stressed the contextual role of British Enlightenment in understanding his chemical research. A careful analysis of his pneumatic reports, privileging the dynamics of his experimental practice, uncovers significant yet neglected aspects of Priestley’s science. By focusing on his (...)
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    (1 other version)Alan Chalmers. The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone: How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms. xii + 288 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Springer, 2009. $139. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2012 - Isis 103 (1):217-218.
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    Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567–1625). [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2012 - Annals of Science 69 (1):142-145.
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    (1 other version)Anna Marie Roos. The Salt of the Earth: Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650–1750. xvi + 296 pp., figs., bibl., index. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007. $148. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2009 - Isis 100 (1):166-167.
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    Benjamin Wardhaugh. Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician, and Scientific Rebel. 312 pp., bibl., notes, illus., index. London: William Collins, 2019. £20 (cloth). E-book available. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2020 - Isis 111 (3):672-674.
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    For the love of science: the correspondence of J. H. de Magellan (1722–1790): edited by R. W. Home, I. M. Malaquias and M. F. Thomaz, Bern, Peter Lang, 2017, 2002 pp. (2 volumes), £157 (cloth), ISBN 9783034312943. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2019 - Annals of Science 76 (3-4):380-382.
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    Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 259. ISBN 978-0-226-35136-0. $30.00. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2018 - British Journal for the History of Science 51 (2):307-309.
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    Joan Steigerwald. Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century.) 472 pp., bibl., notes, illus., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. $55 (cloth); ISBN 9780822945536. E-book available. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2022 - Isis 113 (2):442-443.
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    Lawrence M. Principe. The Secrets of Alchemy. 281 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $25. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2014 - Isis 105 (4):832-833.
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    The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2012 - Annals of Science 69 (4):579-581.
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    From experimental to corporate knowledge in early modern science. [REVIEW]Victor D. Boantza - 2011 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (4):613-617.