La Chimie au XVIIIe siecle avant Lavoisier.

Paris :: Universite de Paris, 1957., 1957. Series: Les Conferences du Palais de la Decouverte, 54. 7.25x5.25 inches. 17, [3] pp. 5 figs. Original printed wrappers ; browned. Very good. Rare. "Antoine Lavoisier occupied much of McKie's interest and he wrote two biographies—Antoine Lavoisier, the Father of Modern Chemistry (1935) and Antoine Lavoisier, Scientist, Economist, Social Reformer (1952). He organized Lavoisier memorabilia and catalogued the Lavoisier laboratory apparatus in the possession of the comtesse de Chazelles. McKie was also associated with the Academie des Sciences de Paris committee that published the Lavoisier correspondence. Because of these activities he was appointed Chevalier of the Legion d' Honneur in 1957. McKie was an avid book collector and his collecting went hand in hand with his research: on Joseph Black, Robert Boyle, Joseph Priestley, Lavoisier, the phlogiston theory; and the history of the Royal Society. McKie had a long interest in Joseph Black, beginning with the 1935 publication of The Discovery of Specific and Latent Heat (with N. H. de V. Heathcote). His study on Black, together with his biography of Lavoisier, resulted in his being presented a Sc.D. by the University of London in 1936. He also studied various student manuscripts of Black's lectures and published commentaries on them, culminating in his book Thomas Cochrane's Notes from Doctor Black's Lectures on Chemistry 1767–1768 (1966) that captured much of Black's philosophy of chemistry. Among his more important papers are those with J.R. Partington published in the Annals of Science: "Historical Studies on the Phlogiston Theory: I. The Levity of Phlogiston" (1937); "II. The Negative Weight of Phlogiston" (1938); "III. Light and Heat in Combustion" (1938); and "IV. Last Phases of the Theory" (1939). Annals of Science was co-founded by McKie and two others in 1936 and he served as an editor to the time of his death." – Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.