De praestantia et utilitate chemiae : Selbstdarstellung einer jungen Disziplin im Spiegel ihres programmatischen Schrifttums / von Christoph Meinel.
Abstract:
"During the 18th century large numbers of printed programme speeches and inaugural lectures were issued demonstrating utility and dignity of chemistry in a wider academic public, in order to prepare the ground for the institutionalization of the discipline within the universities ... These sources not only reflect the need of external justification of a young discipline, but have also influenced the formation of scientific ethos and self-consciousness within the chemical community." From the English summary
Sudhoffs Archiv Bd. 65 (1981), p. 366-389