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‎An Eighteenth Century Lectureship In Chemistry - Essays and Bicentenary Addresses Relating to the Chemistry Department, 1747, of Glasgow University, 1451 with a Foreword by J. W. Cook, F. R. S‎

‎Jackson Son and Company, Glasgow Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1950 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, full red printed clothes, no dust-jacket In-8 1 vol. - 248 pages‎

‎2 text-figures, 18 black and white plates out of text, a frontispiece with a portray of William Cullen 1st edition, 1950 Contents, Chapitres : Foreword, Editorial, Ackowledgements, List of contents, List of illustrations, Senior appointments at Glasgow, 1747-1947, xv, Text, Notes on contributors, Appointments since 1747 to the staff of the chemistry department, Staff of chemistry department, 1947, Author-Index, Subject-Index, 233 pages - The lectureship at Glasgow - William Cullen's history of chemistry - Glasgow university in the eighteenth century - Hermann Boerhaave and scottish chemistry - William Cullen, M. D., and his times - Phlogiston, caloric and heat - Joseph Black, M. D. The teacher and the man - Black's influence on chemistry - The industrial development of Scotland in the Cullen-Black period - John Robinson, M. A. - James Watt and Glasgow university - William Irvine, M. D. - Early scientific links between Scotland and America - Thomas Charles Hope, M. D. - Robert Cleghorn, M. D. - Thomas Thomson, M. D. - Some observations and anecdote - The chemical laboratory at Glasgow sixty years ago - Glasgow chemistry in the twentieth century near fine copy, the editor's binding is near fine, the top and the bottom of the spine are very lightly folded, inside is fine, slightly-yellowing, clean and unmarked, without dust-jacket‎