Description:Content: M.A. Gaudin and early nineteenth century stereochemistry / Jane A. Miller -- Arrangement and structure : a distinction and a difference / Trevor H. Levere -- Wislicenus and lactic acid : the chemical background to van't Hoff's hypothesis / Nicholas W. Fisher -- Practical and theoretical objections to J.H. van't Hoff's 1874 stereochemical ideas / H.A.M. Snelders -- J.A. Le Bel's stereochemical ideas compared with those of J.H. van't Hoff (1874) / H.A.M. Snelders -- Molecular models in the early development of stereochemistry. 1, The van't Hoff model. 2, The Kekulé models and the Baeyer strain theory / O. Bertrand Ramsay -- Significance and limitation of stereochemical benzene models / Tonja A. Koeppel -- The conceptual premises of conformational analysis in the work of C.A. Bischoff / G.V. Bykov -- Has van't Hoff been well read and understood by the profession? / P.H. Hermans -- The first resolution of a coordination compound / George B. Kauffman -- The evolution of stereochemical concepts in pharmacology / John Parascandola -- The origins of conformational analysis / Colin A. Russell -- From configurational notation of stereoisomers to the conceptual basis of stereochemistry / V. Prelog.