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The Scientist's Atom and the Philosopher's Stone How Science Succeeded and Philosophy Failed to Gain Knowledge of Atoms /

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This is not history for its own sake. By critically reflecting on the various...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chalmers, Alan (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 279
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Atomism: Science or Philosophy? -- Democritean Atomism -- How does Epicurus's Garden Grow? -- Atomism in its Ancient Greek Perspective -- From the Ancient Greeks to the Dawn of Science -- Atomism, Experiment and the Mechanical Philosophy: The Work of Robert Boyle -- Newton's Atomism and its Fate -- The Emergence of Modern Chemistry With No Debt to Atomism -- Dalton's Atomism and its Creative Modification via Chemical Formulae -- From Avogadro to Cannizzaro: The Old Story -- Thermodynamics and the Kinetic Theory -- Experimental Contact with Molecules -- Experimental Contact with Electrons -- Atomism Vindicated?. 
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