Chemistry 1540 - 1911 Exhibit“Take Another Look” Scavenger Hunt

This scavenger hunt will help you take another look at the items on display, and notice details that were easy to pass by the first time through. First go through the exhibit, look at each item one by one and read its description in the brochure. Then go back and take a second look at each item to complete the scavenger hunt.

Matching: Write the letter (A, B, C, etc.) from the list of Items on Display (this side) which matches each Scavenger Hunt Question (back side). No item on display is used more than once.

Location: The exhibit is in the History of Science Collections of the OU Libraries: go to the 5th floor of Bizzell Memorial Library and buzz for admittance. Ask for a copy of the brochure that accompanies the exhibit.

Items on DisplayA. Various publications of Marie Curie.

B. Vanity Fair caricature of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie.

C. Georg Agricola, De re metallica (1556).

D. Georg Agricola, De re metallica (1912).

E. Vannoccio Biringuccio, De la pirotechnia (1540).

F. Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber), De alchemia (1541).

G. Paracelsus, Prognostication (1536).

H. Paracelsus, Opera Bücher und Schriften (1603).

I. Chymische Hochzeit: Christiani Rosencreütz (1616).

J. Robert Fludd, Technica macrocosmi historia (1618).

K. Basil Valentine, Triumphant Chariot of Antimony (1678).

L. Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, touching the Spring of the Air (1660).

M. Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist (1661).

N. Johann J. Becher, Opvscula chymica rariora (1719).

O. “Chemie,” Encyclopédie, ed. Diderot & D’Alembert.

P. Antoine Lavoisier, Traité élémentaire de chimie (1789).

Q. John Dalton, “Experimental enquiry into the proportions of the several gases or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere,” Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1805).

R. John Dalton, New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808).

S. Amadeo Avogadro, “Essai d’une manière de déterminer les masses relatives des molécules élémentaires des corps, et les proportions selon lesquelles elles entrent dans ces combinaisons,” Journal de physique (1811) 73: 58-76.

T. Amadeo Avogadro, Fisica de Corpi Ponderbili (1837-1841).

U. Robert Bunsen, Gasometrische Methoden (1857).

V. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, Grundlagen der Chemie (1892).

W. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, Osnovy Khimii (1903).

X. Friedrich August Kekulé, “Über die Konstitution und die Metamorphosen der chemischen Verbindungen...”, Annalen der Chemie (1858).

Y. The cyclic structure of the benzene ring discovered by Kekulé.

Scavenger Hunt Questions

1. ___ Portrait of a scientific couple hanging in a hallway.

2. ___ Artwork created by Joe Taylor.

3. ___ A book about a wedding.

4. ___ Displayed with 3 pieces of apparatus.

5. ___ Translated by a U.S. President.

6. ___ Proposed the phlogiston theory of combustion.

7. ___ Proposed the oxygen theory of combustion.

8. ___ Depicts distillation apparatus on either side of the Earth.

9. ___ Depicts 6 people working in a chemical laboratory.

10.___ Displays six items in an exhibit case about a single person.

11.___ Illustrates an apparatus containing 3 spherical flasks.

12.___ Written in Russian.

13.___ Open to a chapter heading that mentions Mercury and medicine (in Latin).

14.___ English text includes the words “I doubt…”

15.___ Displays a figure named Hermes Trismegistos.

16.___ Shows an air pump.

17.___ 4 volumes.

18.___ Contains a table of the proportional weights of different gases in the atmosphere.

19.___ Open to illustrations depicting bellows and a water wheel.

20.___ Illustrates a lion and a sword.

21.___ Circle diagrams represent simple, binary, ternary and other substances.

22.___ Shows multiple properties of Gallium and Germanium.

23.___ Open to a page that mentions Gay Lussac.