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Nineteenth-century chemical theory: correction of a misunderstanding

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I reply in this short note to some criticisms that Alan Rocke has recently made in this journal.

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  1. Rocke claims Duhem (amongst others) “embraced chemical atomic theory” (p. 148). It is evident from my publications (referred to in the articles of mine that Rocke cites) that I disagree.

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  • Kragh, H.: Between physics and chemistry: Helmholtz’s route to a theory of chemical thermodynamics. In: Cahan, D. (ed.) Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science, pp. 403–431. University of California Press, Berkeley (1993)

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  • Rocke, A.: What did ‘theory’ mean to nineteenth-century chemists? Found. Chem. 15, 145–156 (2013)

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    Paul Needham

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Needham, P. Nineteenth-century chemical theory: correction of a misunderstanding. Found Chem 16, 165–167 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-013-9198-9

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