Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination /

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Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rocke, Alan J., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Colección:Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
Temas:
Kekulé, August, > 1829-1896.
Kopp, Hermann, > 1817-1892.
Kekulé, August, > 1829-1896
Kopp, Hermann, > 1817-1892
1800-1899
Chemistry, Organic > History > 19th century.
Science > Methodology > History.
Imagination.
Visualization.
Chimie organique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sciences > Méthodologie > Histoire.
Visualisation.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > General.
Chemistry, Organic
Imagination
Science > Methodology
Visualization
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ether/or
  • Springtime for chemistry?
  • The education of Alexander Williamson
  • Interpreting chemical atoms
  • Williamson and Graham
  • Grasping the ether
  • The experimental dissection of organic molecules
  • Excursus: isolated radicals?
  • The spread of Williamsonian theory
  • The architect of molecules
  • The education of August Kekulé
  • Kekulé in London
  • Excursus: the road to Valence
  • Molecular dreams
  • Building an unseen structure
  • The start of a teaching career
  • Early work in Heidelberg
  • The theory of polyatomic radicals
  • The theory of atomicity of the elements
  • Molecular epistemology
  • A barometer of the science
  • Writing a textbook
  • Formulas, models, reality
  • Excursus: a case in point
  • Erlenmeyer and Kekulé
  • Constant or variable atomicity?
  • The heuristics of molecular representation
  • Couper
  • Loschmidt
  • Butlerov
  • Crum Brown
  • Excursus: heurism in action
  • The fate of the new graphic formulas
  • Molecules as metaphors
  • Natural types
  • Absolute formulas
  • Excursus: looking through the stereoscope
  • Molecular democracy or autocracy?
  • The revenge of Jupiter's children
  • Aromatic apparitions
  • First approaches to the problem
  • Enter the hexagon
  • Benzene through the phenakistoscope
  • Excursus: ring around the rosie
  • Metachemistry?
  • Dimensional molecules
  • Early stereospatial speculations
  • The spiral staircase
  • The pyramid
  • Imagination in science: point/counterpoint
  • Chemists, physicists, and the microworld
  • Kopp's world
  • The making of a chemist-historian
  • In amongst the molecules
  • The response
  • The thirsty chemists
  • Kekulé's dreams
  • The festivities in Berlin
  • Kekulé's speech
  • The aftermath
  • The eureka experience and the unconscious mind
  • The scientific image-ination
  • Mental images and science
  • Mental images and history
  • Transdictive images in physics and in chemistry.

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