Thinking about matter : studies in the history of chemical philosophy
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Thinking about matter : studies in the history of chemical philosophy
（Collected studies series, CS502）
Variorum, 1995
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Articles originally published in 1968-1993, with original paginations
"xii + 290 pages"--P. vi
Includes index
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Description
In these articles Professor Brooke has aimed to expose and explore the many layers of philosophical debate that accompanied the development of chemistry in the 100 years from Priestley to Kekule. During this period the foundations of our modern science were laid: Lavosier's 'chemical revolution', Dalton's atomic theory, the electrochemical concepts of Berzelius transformed the science, as did new ideas of valency and molecular structure. But it was also a period of intense controversy when chemists called each other brigands and assassins.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Chemists in their contexts: some recent trends in historiography
- A sower went forth : Joseph Priestley and the ministry of reform
- Davy's chemical outlook: the acid test
- The superiority of nature's art? Vitalism, natural theology and the rise of organic chemistry
- WAhler's urea and its vital force?-a verdict from the chemists
- Berzelius, the dualistic hypothesis, and the rise of organic chemistry
- Laurent, Gerhardt, and the philosophy of chemistry
- Organic synthesis and the unification of chemistry-a reappraisal
- Avogadro's hypothesis and its fate: a case-study in the failure of case-studies
- Doing down the Frenchies: how much credit should Kekule have given?
- Index.
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