Experiments, models, paper tools : cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century / Ursula Klein.
Pubblicazione:
Stanford : Stanford university press, 2003.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Writing science
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Introduction. 1. The semiotics of Berzelian chemical formulas 2. Two cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century: a structural comparison 3. Experiments on the periphery of plant chemistry 4. Paper tools for the construction of interpretive models of chemical reactions 5. Paper tools for the classification of organic substances 6. Paper tools for modeling the constitution of organic compounds 7. The dialectic of tools and goals 8. The historical transformation process 9. Paper tools. Notes. Literature cited. Index