Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball /
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| Author / Creator: | Levere, Trevor Harvey. |
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| Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | x, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4527245 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. First Steps: From Alchemy to Chemistry?
- 2. Robert Boyle: Chemistry and Experiment
- 3. A German Story: What Burns, and How
- 4. An Enlightened Discipline: Chemistry as Science and Craft
- 5. Different Kinds of Air
- 6. Theory and Practice: The Tools of Revolution
- 7. Atoms and Elements
- 8. The Rise of Organic Chemistry
- 9. Atomic Weights Revisited
- 10. The Birth of the Teaching-Research Laboratory
- 11. Atoms in Space
- 12. Physical Chemistry
- 13. The Nature of the Chemical Bond
- 14. Conclusion: Where Now, and Where Next? New Frontiers
