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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
279 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?.