If you can spray phlogiston, is it real?
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street London W1S 4BS United KingdomRefund Policy
Description
In the first of three events curated by Michela Massimi, Hasok Chang discusses how we should understand cases from the history of science in which scientists were confident that they were directly manipulating entities which modern science considers nonexistent. The chemistry of “phlogiston” from the 18th century provides an excellent example.
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