Spectroscopy and the Elements in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Work of Sir William Crookes
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The British Journal for the History of Science
- Vol. 6 (4) , 400-423
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400012553
Abstract
Two imposing related problems confronted the chemical spectroscopist of the late nineteenth century. First, he lacked a criterion for judging the validity of claims for elemental discoveries; indeed, he possessed no satisfactory operational definition of the chemical element. Secondly, he felt the need for correlating the spectra of the elements to a conception of their ultimate constitution.Keywords
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