Ideas in chemistry : a history of the science
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書誌事項
Ideas in chemistry : a history of the science
Rutgers University Press, 1992
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- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-209) and index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: cloth ISBN 9780813518350
内容説明
Taking the view that chemistry has become today a service science, providing solutions to problems in other disciplines, Knight (history of science, U. of Durham, England), recounts the transformations of the science, from occult alchemy through mechanistic materialism, experimental innovation, and
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: pbk. ISBN 9780813518367
内容説明
In this unconventional history of chemistry, David Knight takes the refreshing view that the science has "its glorious future behind it." Today, chemistry is primarily a service science. In its very long history, though, chemistry has taken on very different roles. It has been the esoteric preoccupation of alchemists, the source of mechanist views of matter, the cornerstone of all other sciences and medicine, an archetype of experimental science, a science of revolutions, a science that imposed order on the material world, and a partner for physics, biology, and technology.
Through all these past lives, chemistry has absorbed ideas--from artisans, from other sciences, from philosophy, from its social and cultural matrix--and generated its own concepts to pass back to the rest of the world. Rather than writing a survey of chemistry's triumphs, Knight covers the course of its intellectual and institutional history through carefully chosen episodes that display the complex mix of experiment, theory, application, social attitude, tradition, luck, and human quirkiness that have shaped chemistry's changing character.
This delightfully written book should engage the attention of anyone interested in the interplay of science and ideas, whether a general reader, a student, a scientist, or historian of science.
目次
An Cccult Science
A Mechanical Science
An Independent Science
The Fundamental Science
A Revolutionary or Inductive Science?
The Experimental Science
A Useful Science
A Deductive Science
A Descriptive Classifying Science
A Teachable Science
A Reduced Science
A Service Science
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