Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179195
Category : Atoms
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179195
Category : Atoms
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical manipulation
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179171
Category : Atoms
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Researches into the laws of chemical affinity
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179157
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179140
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Studies in spectrum analysis
Author: Norman LockyerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179218
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Selected essays
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179133
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: The use of the blowpipe in chemistry and mineralogy
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179164
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Making of Modern Science
Author: David KnightPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745657990
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. Eighteenth-century steam engines preceded understanding of the physics underlying them; but electric telegraphs and motors were applied science, based upon painstaking interpretation of nature. The ideas, discoveries and inventions of scientists transformed the world: lives were longer and healthier, cities and empires grew, societies became urban rather than agrarian, the local became global. And by the opening years of the twentieth century, science was spreading beyond Europe and North America, and women were beginning to be visible in the ranks of scientists. Bringing together the people, events, and discoveries of this exciting period into a lively narrative, this book will be essential reading both for students of the history of science and for anyone interested in the foundations of the world as we know it today.
The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry
Author: David M. KnightPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415179188
Category : Atoms
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Evolution of Chemical Knowledge
Author: Jürgen JostPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031100948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Chemistry shapes and creates the disposition of the world's resources and provides novel substances for the welfare and hazard of our civilisation at an exponential rate. Can we model the evolution of chemical knowledge? This book not only provides a positive answer to the question, it provides the formal models and available data to model chemical knowledge as a complex dynamical system based on the mutual interaction of the social, semiotic and material systems of chemistry. These systems, which have evolved over the history, include the scientists and institutions supporting chemical knowledge (social system); theories, concepts and forms of communication (semiotic system) and the substances, reactions and technologies (material system) central for the chemical practice. These three systems, which have traditionally been mostly studied in isolation, are brought together in this book in a grand historical narrative, on the basis of comprehensive data sets and supplemented by appropriate tools for their formal analysis. We thereby develop a comprehensive picture of the evolution of chemistry, needed for better understanding the past, present and future of chemistry as a discipline. The interdisciplinary character of this book and its non-technical language make it an ideal complement to more traditional material in undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry, history of science and digital humanities.