Book Chapter: Questioning the Symmetry Between Analysis and Synthesis

[Paul Ferguson]

"As a historian and philosopher of chemistry, I have been intrigued by the significance of the heroic figure of Lavoisier as the founder of modern chemistry and the correlative view of chemistry as languishing in the obscure alchemical tradition that preceded his chemical revolution."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100...76398-4_14