Publications
His results were published in Der Stochiometrie oder Messkunst chemischer Elemente (1792–1794), and Über die neueren Gegenstände in der Chemie (1792–1802), but it was long before they were properly appreciated, or he himself accorded due credit for them. This was partly because some of his work was wrongly ascribed to Carl Wenzel by Jons Berzelius through a mistake which was only corrected in 1841 by Henri Hess, professor of chemistry at St. Petersburg, and author of the laws of constant heat-sums and of thermoneutrality.
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