Alembic Club reprints

Die Alembic Club reprints sind eine Folge von Nachdrucken, die vom 1889 in Edinburgh gegründeten Alembic Club ab 1898 herausgegeben wurden.

Der ersten Band von 1898 gibt ursprünglich 1755 erschienene Experimente mit Magnesia alba, Branntkalk und anderen alkalischen Substanzen von Joseph Black wider. Der letzte Band, X-rays and the electric conductivity of gases, erschien 1958. Neben originalsprachigen Werken enthält die Reihe verschiedene Übersetzungen.

Der Chemiker Leonard Dobbin (1858–1952) schrieb 1929 in seinem Artikel The Alembic Club and the History of Chemistry im Journal of Chemical Education, dass der Club „eine nützliche Rolle dabei spielte, wichtiges historisches Material zur Chemie interessierten Lesern zugänglich zu machen“,^[1] dies sind die „Alembic Club Reprints“.

• 1. Experiments on magnesia alba, quicklime and other alcaline substances by Joseph Black […] (1735). Edinburgh 1898 (Digitalisat, Reprint 1910).
• 2. Foundations of the atomic theory comprising papers and extracts by John Dalton, William Hyde Wollaston und Thomas Thomson (1802–1808). Edinburgh 1893 (Digitalisat, Reprint 1911).
• 3. Experiments on air […] by Henry Cavendish […] (1784–1785). Edinburgh 1893 (Digitalisat, Reprint 1899).
• 4. Foundations of the molecular theory comprising papers and extracts by John Dalton, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, and Amadeo Avogadro (1808–1811). Edinburgh 1899 (Digitalisat, Reprint 1911).
• 5. Extracts from micrographia, or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses by R. Hooke (1665). W. F. Clay, Edinburgh 1894 (Digitalisat).
• 6. The decomposition of the fixed alkalies and alkaline earths by Humphry Davy (1807–1808). Edinburgh 1901 (Digitalisat, Digitalisat).
• 7. The discovery of oxygen, Part 1. Experiments by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. (1775). Edinburgh 1901 (Digitalisat).
• 8. The discovery of oxygen, Part 2. Experiments by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1777). Edinburgh 1901 (Digitalisat).
• 9. The elementary nature of chlorine. Papers by Humphry Davy (1809–1818). Edinburgh 1902 (Digitalisat, Digitalisat).
• 10. Researches on the arseniates, phosphates, and modifications of phosphoric acid by Thomas Graham, F.R.S. (1833). Edinburgh 1902 (Reprint 1912).
• 11. Essays of Jean Rey, doctor of medicine, on an enquiry into the cause wherefore tin and lead increase in weight on calcination. (1630). Edinburgh 1904 (Digitalisat).
• 12. The liquefaction of gases, Papers by Michael Faraday (1823–1845). […]. Edinburgh 1896 (Digitalisat, Digitalisat).
• 13. The early history of chlorine. Papers by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1774), C. L. Berthollet (1785), Guyton de Morveau (1787), J. L. Gay-Lussac and L. J. Thenard (1809). Edinburgh 1905 (Digitalisat).
• 14. Researches on the molecular asymmetry of natural organic products by Louis Pasteur (1860). Edinburgh 1905 (Digitalisat).
• 15. The electrolysis of organic compounds. Papers by Hermann Kolbe (1845–1868). Edinburgh 1900 (Digitalisat).
• 16. Papers on etherification and on the constitution of salts by Alexander William Williamson, LL.D. F.R.S. (1850–1856). Edinburgh 1902 (Digitalisat).
• 17. Medico-physical works. Being a translation of Tractatus quinque medico-physici by John Mayow, LL.D., M.D. (1674). Edinburgh 1907 (Digitalisat).
• 18. Sketch of a course of chemical philosophy by Stanislao Cannizzaro (1858). Edinburgh 1911 (Digitalisat).
• 19. The foundations of the theory of dilute solutions: papers on osmotic pressure by J. H. van't Hoff and on electrolytic dissociation by Svante Arrhenius, 1887. 1929.
• 20. Prout’s hypothesis. Papers by William Prout, M. D. (1815–16), J. S. Stas (1860), and C. Marignac (1860). 1932 (Digitalisat).
• 21. On a new chemical theory and researches on salicylic acid. Papers by Archibald Scott Couper (1858). 1933.
• 22. X-rays and the electric conductivity of gases; comprising papers by W. C. Röntgen (1895, 1896) J. J. Thomson and E. Rutherford (1896). 1958.

• Leonard Dobbin: The Alembic Club and the history of chemistry. In: Journal of Chemical Education. Band 7, Nr. 8, 1929, S. 1225–1229 (doi:10.1021/ed006p1225).

1. ↑ Journal of Chemical Education. 1929, S. 1225 (‘a useful part in bringing important historical material connected with chemistry within the reach of interested readers’)