Mi Gyung Kim

The Enlightened Chemistry of Air and Fire

Symposium on 18C Chemistry, organized by the History division of the American Chemical Society. Plenary talk presented at the American Chemical Society biannual meeting, San Diego, CA.

Artificial laboratory vs. God’s Nature: Rousseau’s Politics of Science

International Conference on the History of Chemistry. Presented at the International Conference on the History of Chemistry, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Chemistry and Botany in Rousseau’s Politics of Science

Early Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary Terrall. Presented at the Early Modern Explorations: A Conference in Honor of Mary Terrall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

Chemical Laboratory and the Cosmic Space

Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Development by Derek P. McCormack

Kim, M. G. (2019, January 1). Technology and Culture, Vol. 60, pp. 332–333.

Enlightenment Chemistry as an ‘Experimental Science’

Enlightenment Chemistry as an ‘Experimental Science.’ The Korean Jornal of History of Science, 40(2), 237–264.

The Imagined Empire

Victor D. Boantza. Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order. (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700–1945.) xiv + 266 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. $124.95 (cloth).

Kim, M. G. (2015, June 1). Isis, Vol. 106, pp. 439–440.

Material enlightenments

[Review of ]. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 44(4), 424–433.

Paris scientist: Career and meetings during the Enlightenment

[Review of ]. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 44(4), 424–433.

Stabilizing chemical reality: The analytic-synthetic ideal of chemical species

Hyle, 20(1), 117–139.

The expert cook in enlightenment France

[Review of ]. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 44(4), 424–433.

Archeology, genealogy, and geography of experimental philosophy

Kim, M. G. (2013, November 15). Social Studies of Science, Vol. 44, pp. 150–162.

Invention as a Social Drama: From an Ascending Machine to the Aerostatic Globe

Kim, M. G. (2013, October 1). Technology and Culture, Vol. 54, pp. 853–887.

The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia. By Joanna Stalnaker. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+240. $45.00.

Kim, M. G. (2011, December 1). The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 83, pp. 901–903.

From phlogiston to caloric: chemical ontologies

Foundations of Chemistry, 13(3), 201–222.

A Historical Atlas of Objectivity

Modern Intellectual History, 6(3), 569–596.

JOSÉ RAMÓN BERTOMEU-SANCHEZ - DUNCAN THORBURN BURNS - BRIGITTE VAN TIGGELEN (eds.), Neighbours and Territories. The Evolving Identity of Chemistry. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique: Memosciences asbl, 2008. 752 pp., ISBN 978-2-9600815-0-3.

KIM, M. I. G. Y. U. N. G. (2009, January 1). Nuncius, Vol. 24, pp. 553–554.

Review: Neil Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004; 498 pp., 6 illus.; 0199271364, £75/$125 (hbk)

Kim, N. M. G. (2008, June 9). European History Quarterly, Vol. 38, pp. 485–487.

Russell McCormmach. Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science. viii + 258 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. $44.50 (cloth).

Kim, M. G. (2007, June 1). Isis, Vol. 98, pp. 386–387.

Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)

Hyle, Vol. 12, pp. 141–148.

‘Public’ Science: Hydrogen Balloons and Lavoisier's Decomposition of Water

Kim, M. G. (2006, July 1). Annals of Science, Vol. 63, pp. 291–318.

Balloon mania: news in the air

Kim, M. G. (2004, December 1). Endeavour, Vol. 28, pp. 149–155.

Affinity, That Elusive Dream

Kim, M. G. (2003, February 28). The MIT Press EBooks.

Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch: Im Briefwechsel mit Wihelm Ostwald. Joachim Stocklöv

Kim, M. G. (2001, June 1). Isis, Vol. 92, pp. 404–405.

The analytic ideal of chemical elements: Robert Boyle and the French didactic tradition of chemistry

Science in Context, Vol. 14, pp. 361–395.

Chemical analysis and the domains of reality: Wilhelm Homberg's Essais de chimie, 1702–1709

Kim, M. G. (2000, March 1). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Vol. 31A, pp. 37–69.

The making of the chemist: The social history of chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914.

[Review of ]. Annals of Science, 57(3), 311–312.

August Friedrich Horstmann und die physikalische Chemie. Alexander Kipnis

Kim, M. G. (1999, December 1). Isis, Vol. 90, pp. 821–822.

Arrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect. Elisabeth Crawford

Kim, M. G. (1997, December 1). Isis, Vol. 88, pp. 728–729.

Constructing Symbolic Spaces: Chemical Molecules in the Académie Des Sciences

Ambix, 43(1), 1–31.

The Layers of Chemical Language, I: Constitution of Bodies v. Structure of Matter

History of Science, 30(1), 69–96.