美国著名科学史家G.萨顿曾经给科学史这样定义:如果把科学定义为系统化的实证知识,或者看做是在不同时期不同地点所系统化的这样一种知识,那么科学史就是这种知识发展的描述和说明。化学史是科学史的一个分支。化学史是人类在长期的社会实践过程中,对大自然的化学知识的系统的历史的描述,它融合 S. Sutton, the famous American historian of science, once defined the history of science as such: if we define science as systematic empirical knowledge or as such a systematized knowledge at different places in different periods, the history of science is such Description and description of knowledge development. Chemical history is a branch of the history of science. Chemical history is a systematic history of mankind’s chemical knowledge of nature in the long process of social practice, which is a fusion of