Chang Ku-ming
Osiris. 2014;29:135-57. doi: 10.1086/678101.
Histories of eighteenth-century chemistry often assert that the works of the German chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734), especially his ideas about phlogiston, were largely unknown to French chemists until the 1740s. A careful analysis of Stahl's writings and the publications of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris shows that academy chemists were well informed about, and even integrated, Stahl's chemical theories, experiments, and methods beginning in the 1710s, and that Stahl kept abreast of the work by his colleagues at the Paris Academy. It also reveals the frequency and significance of the communication between French and German chemical communities in the first half of the eighteenth century.
18世纪化学史的相关记载常常断言，德国化学家格奥尔格·恩斯特·施塔尔（1659 - 1734）的著作，尤其是他关于燃素的观点，在18世纪40年代之前法国化学家大多并不知晓。对施塔尔的著作以及巴黎皇家科学院的出版物进行仔细分析后发现，从18世纪10年代起，科学院的化学家就已充分了解施塔尔的化学理论、实验和方法，甚至还将其融入其中，而且施塔尔也一直关注着巴黎科学院同事们的研究工作。这也揭示了18世纪上半叶法德化学界之间交流的频繁程度及其重要意义。
