Things I want to write here on the blog:

A historical description of the development of the scientific method. That development wasn't smooth, and it probably isn't finished. And there is a diversity today of what constitutes the scientific method; different disciplines appear to have settled on slightly or sometimes drastically different methods. It seems to depend on ability to test a hypothesis and whether the system is a mechanism.

Study and write up the "Arabic" alchemy. It's not really Arabic, it's Islamic, and it's mostly based in Persia, in Syria, in Turkey. This would be a multi-part continuation of the Alchemy series. Long term: get into Europe, talk about all the variety of alchemies there, and eventually cover the 110-year transition into chemistry between Boyle and Lavoisier. I'll probably need a post on phlogiston. My Timeline of Alchemy needs a lot of curation. I got it from another website, and it's not particularly good. 

Short biographies of the great chemists, and a few minor ones. I'd start with Boyle, Priestly, Lavoisier, Dalton, Davy, Faraday, Gadolin, Arrhenius, a lot of them, up to 1900. Maybe a second series on the development of quantum chemistry. A long term project, it'll be a year or two. Or three.

antoine-laurent-lavoisier-commemorative-booklet.pdf (887.44 kb)

A chemical history of acids and bases. Major aspects of how chemistry is done revolve around these concepts, and efforts to re-create a philosophical basis for chemistry are centered here. Or in quantum theory; that's the other chemical philosophy. 

Something else I thought of last night, but can't remember at the moment.