From elements to atoms : a history of chemical composition / Robert Siegfried.
Pubblicazione:
Philadelphia : American philosophical society, 2002.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 278 p. ; 26 cm
Serie:
Transactions of the American philosophical society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, 0065-9746 ; 92.4
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Introduction. 1. The seventeenth century: chemistry comes of age 2. Robert Boyle: the sceptical chymist 3. The stagnation of chemical theory (1675-1750) 4. The development of the idea of neutral salt 5. An historiographic digression: phlogiston 6. How air returned to chemistry: a brief history of air (1600-1750) 7. The return of the four elements 8. French chemistry circa 1760 9. The marriage of air and phlogiston 10. Lavoisier and the anti-phlogistic doctrine 11. A compositional nomenclature 12. A comparative view of the phlogistic and anti phlogistic philosophies 13. Assimilation and anticipation 14. John Dalton and the chemical atomic theory. Bibliography. Index
