Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / Trevor H. Levere.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, 2001.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Serie:
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. First steps: from alchemy to chemistry? 2. Robert Boyle: chemistry and experiment 3. A German story: what burns, and how 4. An enlightened discipline: chemistry as science and craft 5. Different kinds of air 6. Theory and practice: the tools of revolution 7. Atoms and elements 8. The rise of organic chemistry 9. Atomic weights revisited 10. The birth of the teaching-research laboratory 11. Atoms in space 12. Physical chemistry: a discipline comes of age 13. The nature of the chemical bond 14. Where now, and where next? New frontiers. Suggested further reading. Index
