Harvard case histories in experimental science volume 1and volume 2

Volume 1 : Robert Boyle's experiments in pneumatics; Overthrow of hte phlogiston theory : the chemical revolution of 1775-1789 ; early development of the concepts of temperature and heat : the rise and decline of the caloric theory and Atomic-molecular theory Volume 2 : Plants and the atmosphere; Pasteur's Tyndall's study of spontaneous generation and Development of the concept of electric charge : electricity from the greeks to Coulomb