"Jan Golinski has written an excellent account of 18th-century British chemistry...an elegant volume, written in a clear and cogent manner....Golinski is a first-rate historian." John G. McEvoy, American Scientist

• Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: science as public culture; 2. 'The study of a gentlemen': chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment; 3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightement; 4. Airs and their uses; 5. The coming of the chemical revolution; 6. 'Dr Beddoes's Breath': nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry; 7. Humphry Davy: the public face of genius; 8. Analysis, education and the chemical community; Bibliography; Index.

"Jan Golinski has written an excellent account of 18th-century British chemistry...an elegant volume, written in a clear and cogent manner....Golinski is a first-rate historian." John G. McEvoy, American Scientist

• Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: science as public culture; 2. 'The study of a gentlemen': chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment; 3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightement; 4. Airs and their uses; 5. The coming of the chemical revolution; 6. 'Dr Beddoes's Breath': nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry; 7. Humphry Davy: the public face of genius; 8. Analysis, education and the chemical community; Bibliography; Index.

"Jan Golinski has written an excellent account of 18th-century British chemistry...an elegant volume, written in a clear and cogent manner....Golinski is a first-rate historian." John G. McEvoy, American Scientist

• Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: science as public culture; 2. 'The study of a gentlemen': chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment; 3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightement; 4. Airs and their uses; 5. The coming of the chemical revolution; 6. 'Dr Beddoes's Breath': nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry; 7. Humphry Davy: the public face of genius; 8. Analysis, education and the chemical community; Bibliography; Index.