Historedia
Person

Robert Kerr

Events
1
Episodes
4
Years
1789–1790

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Robert Kerr, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Publication of Lavoisier's Elementary Treatise of Chemistry

    1789–1790

    Role: translator of the 1790 English edition

    1. 1789 · publication of Lavoisier's chemistry textbookPublication of the Traité élémentaire de chimie

      Antoine Lavoisier's chemistry textbook Traité élémentaire de chimie was published in 1789, with illustrations attributed to Madame Lavoisier.

    2. 1789 · content of the 1789 treatiseDefinition of elements and fermentation findings

      The book defines an element as a substance not decomposable by chemical analysis and reports that fermentation yields carbonic gas and spirit of wine, or alcohol.

    3. 1789 · content of the 1789 treatiseFirst chemical equation

      The treatise publishes the first chemical equation, grape must = carbonic acid + alcohol, which Lavoisier called one of the most extraordinary in chemistry.

    4. 1790 · Edinburgh printing of the English editionEnglish translation by Robert Kerr

      In 1790 Robert Kerr translated the treatise into English as Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order, published in Edinburgh by William Creech.

Sources

  1. Traité Élémentaire de Chimie Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-14