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Seymour Mauskopf

Professor Emeritus of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
226 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory: its success and fate.

Journal Article Ambix · November 2002 First proposed in the early 1780s, Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory was the most successful enunciation of the English pneumatic approach to phlogiston. Phlogiston was identified with a material substance, inflammable air. In this paper, I explore the na ... Full text Cite