Pub Date : 2023-01-13DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2157097
Silvia Pérez-Criado
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2222505
Gabriele Ferrario
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Pub Date : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2156109
Pablo Corral-Broto
Jarrige and Le Roux’s book appeared in French in 2017; three years later MIT Press published a translation of this excellent work on the history of pollution. The book makes an important contribution to the fields of environmental history, social and economic history, the history of law and the state, histories of science and technology, and political ecology or ecological economics, among other eco-disciplines. It analyses pollution from the point of view of production and consumption, regulation, industrial lobbying, labour pressure, and devotion to economic growth all over the planet. Thus it presents a global history of pollution, divided chronologically into three parts from 1700 to the present day. The first part traces the emergence of industrial pollution between 1700 and 1830, from agrarian states and rural pollution to industrialisation and urban pollution. During this time there was a mandatory distance of more than twenty kilometres of gunpowder factories from cities, enforced by a public health police. But coal cities carried out what they called “the regulatory revolution” (p. 63). These changes in the protection, estimation, and compensation of industrial damage have been widely studied by historians. Jarrige and Le Roux, both experts on France, have managed to extend this story to all the industrial countries of the nineteenth century. The second part, “Naturalizing Pollutions in the Age of Progress (1830–1914),” shows that the pattern was global: instead of shutting down polluting factories, notions of progress required protecting them with new experts and new interpretations of the law. Chemistry became a “new frontier” (p. 106), organised and prepared to pollute without limits for the sake of progress. Thus were born the great chemical multinational corporations at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as new solvents, fertilisers, insecticides, and synthetic products. Legal and regulatory change up to the GreatWar was also global and always aimed at protecting the industry. This explains why public and neighbourhood protests were ubiquitous but unresolved, and not even the hygienists questioned the benefits of chemistry
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2140979
Judit Gil-Farrero
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2146352
Wenrui Zhao
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2134615
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Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2137978
Guillermo Restrepo
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
发表于《Ambix》(第70卷第1期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67910-1
Guillermo Restrepo
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2112850
H. Kragh
As Mary Jo Nye noted in an essay in the first issue of Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, the genre of biography maintains a great appeal among general readers, working chemists, and scholars of the academic community. The two books under review belong to this broad and increasingly popular genre of biography of chemists and they are both published by the Springer company. However, otherwise they are quite different and for this reason they will be dealt with separately. Some Forgotten Chemists is a slim volume sold by Springer at an unreasonably high price as part of the series Perspectives on the History of Chemistry, edited by Seth Rasmussen. It consists of seventeen chapters, sixteen of which describe the life and career of a chemist who is claimed to be forgotten or is little known today (one of the chapters is a summary account of “Women Pioneers” in general). The author is Brian Halton, a British-New Zealand chemist who, from 1968 to his death in 2019, worked at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he wrote a series of articles on little-remembered yet significant chemists in the local journal Chemistry in New Zealand. These biographical articles have now been collected into a book format. Somewhat unimaginatively, they appear in alphabetical order, starting with Carl Friedrich Accum and ending with William John Young. In this way each chapter is self-contained, much like in biographical dictionaries such as the authoritative multi-volumeDictionary of Scientific Biography or, to mention a less ambitious example from the history of chemistry, the Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker published in 1989. The obvious disadvantage of this kind of fragmented structure is that the book loses coherence and a common context. It is not possible to compare the separate chapters, nor is that the purpose of dictionary-like publications of this type.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2107318
Anisia Iacob
as well as his later rebellion against an academic career in Ghent, which he found stultifying, preferring to try his luck in America, with long absence from, and consequent negative impact on, his marriage to Céline Swarts. Mercellis dispels some myths, notably that Baekeland earned $750,000 by selling his invention of Velox photographic paper in 1899 to Eastman Kodak. In actuality, he shared this sum with two partners, Leonard Jacobi and Albert Hahn, making only $215,000 from the deal, which was nonetheless sufficient to set him up as an independent researcher. When he later referred to this period in his life and the sale of his interests in the Nepera Chemical Company, Baekeland failed to mention any partners, only using the pronoun “I” in his presentations, consequently gaining all the reputational benefit. Somewhat of an academic elitist, he nonetheless valued the practical approach rather than the theoretical, rejecting those in an academic “ivory tower” (p. 54). Baekeland made money in business but was careful to avoid mention of this when talking in academic circles, where he often focused on theoretical rather than practical approaches, postulating theories about the structure of his phenolic resins, which were later proven to be very much off the mark. He promoted industrial chemistry as “a service to society” (p. 183), regarding science and technology as superior in social and cultural value to literature and art, an opinion which did not endear him to some of his peers and provoked debate. However, as an entrepreneur of his time, he benefited from the increasing popularity of science and technology in the contemporary zeitgeist. The book is enriched by the use of a range of primary archives, notably sources in Ghent, Belgium, and better-known records in the United States. This research will be invaluable to historians of technology and the history of science.
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