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Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution : Laws of Another Order.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Historiography; Scientific Revolutions and Crises; Structure and Themes; Part I: Chymistry In The Scientific Revolution; Duclos and Chymistry at the Early Académie des Sciences; 1 Duclos Reads Boyle; The Crisis of Chymical Principles; The Origin and Form of Sweet Qualities; Duclosâ#x80;#x99;s Principles; Particles of Saltpeter: Mechanism and Chymical Causality; On Boyleâ#x80;#x99;s Unsuccessful Experiments; Conclusion.
- 2 Fire, Alkahest, and ElementsDuclosâ#x80;#x99;s Chymical Natural History of Plants; Dodart Enters the Arena: Natural History by Fire; Radical Analysis and the Inner Life of Matter; Conclusion; 3 From Cohesion to Gravity; The Causes of Gravity; Forces, Big and Small: The Newtonian Context; The Causes of Coagulation: Chymical Operations and Mechanical Speculations; Conclusion; 4 Interlude: The Crisis of Inter-Revolutionary Chemistry; Part II: Chemistry In The Chemical Revolution; 5 Priestleyâ#x80;#x99;s Quest for Airs and Ideas; Priestleyâ#x80;#x99;s Chemical Practice and Writing(s).
- Experimental Commitments: The Case of Nitrous AirMethod, Text, and Epistemology; Conclusion; 6 Pneumatic Metaphysics: Scheele, Crawford, and Kirwan; Kirwanâ#x80;#x99;s Work and Writings on Phlogiston; Phlogistic Transmutations and Pneumatic Metaphysics; The Phlogistic Constitution and Role of Heat; Kirwan Enters the Arena: Innovations and Renovations; Conclusion; 7 Operational Uniformity and a â#x80;#x9C;false shew of simplicityâ#x80;#x9D;; From Vapors to Facts; From Proportions to Quantities; The Force of Affinity and Affinity as a Force; From Uniformity to Simplicity; Conclusion.
- Â#x80;#x9C;Laws of Another Orderâ#x80;#x9D;: Concluding RemarksBibliography.