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Author: John Hudson Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1468464418 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
This book is written as a result of a personal conviction of the value of incorporating historical material into the teaching of chemistry, both at school and undergraduate level. Indeed, it is highly desirable that an undergraduate course in chemistry incorporates a separate module on the history of chemistry. This book is therefore aimed at teachers and students of chemistry, and it will also appeal to practising chemists. While the last 25 years has seen the appearance of a large number of specialist scholarly publications on the history of chemistry, there has been little written in the way of an introductory overview of the subject. This book fills that gap. It incorporates some of the results of recent research, and the text is illustrated throughout. Clearly, a book of this length has to be highly selective in its coverage, but it describes the themes and personalities which in the author's opinion have been of greatest importance in the development of the subject. The famous American historian of science, Henry Guerlac, wrote: 'It is the central business of the historian of science to reconstruct the story of the acquisition of this knowledge and the refinement of its method or methods, and-perhaps above all-to study science as a human activity and learn how it arose, how it developed and expanded, and how it has influenced or been influenced by man's material, intellectual, and even spiritual aspirations' (Guerlac, 1977). This book attempts to describe the development of chemistry in these terms.
Author: John Hudson Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1468464418 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
This book is written as a result of a personal conviction of the value of incorporating historical material into the teaching of chemistry, both at school and undergraduate level. Indeed, it is highly desirable that an undergraduate course in chemistry incorporates a separate module on the history of chemistry. This book is therefore aimed at teachers and students of chemistry, and it will also appeal to practising chemists. While the last 25 years has seen the appearance of a large number of specialist scholarly publications on the history of chemistry, there has been little written in the way of an introductory overview of the subject. This book fills that gap. It incorporates some of the results of recent research, and the text is illustrated throughout. Clearly, a book of this length has to be highly selective in its coverage, but it describes the themes and personalities which in the author's opinion have been of greatest importance in the development of the subject. The famous American historian of science, Henry Guerlac, wrote: 'It is the central business of the historian of science to reconstruct the story of the acquisition of this knowledge and the refinement of its method or methods, and-perhaps above all-to study science as a human activity and learn how it arose, how it developed and expanded, and how it has influenced or been influenced by man's material, intellectual, and even spiritual aspirations' (Guerlac, 1977). This book attempts to describe the development of chemistry in these terms.
Author: Frederic Lawrence Holmes Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262082822 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
This volume moves chemical instruments and experiments into the foreground of historical concern, in line with the emphasis on practice that characterizes current work on other fields of science and engineering.
Author: Francis Preston Venable Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230337982 Category : Languages : en Pages : 50
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... chemistry the experiment stations and laboratories established now by the governments of every civilized country. So great a number of trained scientific workers, whose entire time can be given to experiments and to researches, must bring about a great increase of knowledge in this very difficult field of work. PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. The study, from a chemical standpoint, of the substances and processes in the animal body presents even greater difficulties and complexities than the similar study of plants. These two lines of study have been in a measure mutually helpful. At first the same chemists were often engaged in both, as de Saussure, Chevreul, Liebig, and others. They have now become very distinct and separate fields of research. The Problems to be solved In order to lay a foundation for physiological chemistry, it has been necessary first to have some knowledge of the multitudinous substances occurring in animal bodies, and, if possible, to learn the conditions under which these different bodies were formed. Several stumblingblocks present themselves here. The delicacy and instability of many of these compounds, the possibility that their extraction from the living organism or the killing of the organism might cause radical changes in them, and the extreme complexity and probable size of the molecules, which render it difficult to decide between the several possible formulas derived by analyses, are among the problems to be faced. Because of the last-mentioned difficulty some of the most important substances occurring in animals have still no certain formula assigned them. Furthermore, there have, of course, been serious difficulties in the way of separation and purification. Condition of the Science.--It is therefore not...
Author: John Hudson
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Author: Francis Preston Venable
Author: Thomas Thomson (Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow.)
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Author: Frederic Lawrence Holmes
Author: Francis Preston Venable