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Chapter 2
Illumination in America

The intellectual atmosphere of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries was marked by changing concepts of science as well as by an
increased curiosity about these new concepts. Modern chemistry, born
late in the eighteenth century, began to forge ahead rapidly when new
methods of quantitative experimentation revealed the inadequacy of
some of the old concepts and opened the door to a better understanding
of many puzzling problems.


The beginnings of scientific chemistry

From the dawn of history, combustion with flame was of outstanding
significance in the advance of civilization. Yet until late in the 1700's there
was no adequate explanation of this common phenomenon. Early in the

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Publication Information: Book Title: The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899. Contributors: Harold F. Williamson - author, Arnold R. Daum - author. Publisher: Northwestern University Press. Place of Publication: Evanston, IL. Publication Year: 1959. Page Number: 27.
    
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