LEADER 04189nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910969953403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612646423 010 $a9781282646421 010 $a1282646427 010 $a9780226723358 010 $a0226723356 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226723358 035 $a(CKB)2560000000012044 035 $a(EBL)544075 035 $a(OCoLC)642685760 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000420274 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12110481 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420274 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391804 035 $a(PQKB)11499730 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123058 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC544075 035 $a(DE-B1597)524059 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226723358 035 $a(Perlego)1852872 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000012044 100 $a20090622d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImage and reality $eKekule, Kopp, and the scientific imagination /$fAlan J. Rocke 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (403 p.) 225 1 $aSynthesis 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226723327 311 08$a0226723321 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Ether/Or --$t2. The Architect of Molecules --$t3. Building an Unseen Structure --$t4. A Barometer of the Science --$t5. The Heuristics of Molecular Representation --$t6. Molecules as Metaphors --$t7. Aromatic Apparitions --$t8. Dimensional Molecules --$t9. Kopp's World --$t10. Kekulé's "Dreams" --$t11. The Scientific Image-ination --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aNineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for a fuller understanding of the nature of scientific creativity. Arguing that visual mental images regularly assisted many of these scientists in thinking through old problems and new possibilities, Rocke uses a variety of sources, including private correspondence, diagrams and illustrations, scientific papers, and public statements, to investigate their ability to not only imagine the invisibly tiny atoms and molecules upon which they operated daily, but to build detailed and empirically based pictures of how all of the atoms in complicated molecules were interconnected. These portrayals of "chemical structures," both as mental images and as paper tools, gradually became an accepted part of science during these years and are now regarded as one of the central defining features of chemistry. In telling this fascinating story in a manner accessible to the lay reader, Rocke also suggests that imagistic thinking is often at the heart of creative thinking in all fields. Image and Reality is the first book in the Synthesis series, a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed, edited by Angela N. H. Creager, John E. Lesch, Stuart W. Leslie, Lawrence M. Principe, Alan Rocke, E.C. Spary, and Audra J. Wolfe, in partnership with the Chemical Heritage Foundation. 410 0$aSynthesis (University of Chicago. Press) 606 $aChemistry, Organic$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aScience$xMethodology$xHistory 606 $aImagination 606 $aVisualization 615 0$aChemistry, Organic$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xMethodology$xHistory. 615 0$aImagination. 615 0$aVisualization. 676 $a540.9/034 686 $aVB 2380$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aRocke$b Alan J.$f1948-$01127855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969953403321 996 $aImage and reality$94351482 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01661nam0-2200433---450 001 990010112950403321 005 20250912163810.0 035 $a001011295 035 $aFED01001011295 035 $a(Aleph)001011295FED01 100 $a20161021g18891892km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $alat 102 $aIT 105 $aa-------001yy 200 1 $aFlora Aetnea, seu Descriptio plantarum in monte Aetna sponte nascentium$fauctore Francisco Tornabene 210 $aCatinae$cex Typis F. Galati$d1889-1892 215 $a4 v.$c25 cm 327 0 $a1: Dicotyledonideae-Talamiflore$a2: Dicotyledonideae-Calyciflorae$a3: Dicotyledonideae-Corollifloraeflorae et Mono chlamydeae$a4: Monocotyledonideae et Acotyledonideae 610 0 $aFlora$aSicilia 676 $a581.9458$v23$zita 700 1$aTornabene,$bFrancesco$f<1813-1897>$0740046 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 856 4 $zVisualizza versione elettronica dei vv. 1, 2, 3 c/o biodiversitylibrary.org$uhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40181#page/7/mode/1up$e20161021 901 $aBK 912 $a990010112950403321 952 $aComes 030$b1934-144$fDAGBO 952 $aComes 031$b1934-144$fDAGBO 952 $aComes 032$b1934-144$fDAGBO 952 $aComes 033$b1934-144$fDAGBO 952 $a074.017.TOR$bs.i.$fDECGE 952 $aA MUSA 941-1$b03/4167/25$fFAGBC 952 $aA MUSA 941-2$b03/4168/25$fFAGBC 952 $aA MUSA 941-3$b03/4169/25$fFAGBC 952 $aA MUSA 941-4$b03/4170/25$fFAGBC 959 $aDAGBO 959 $aDECGE 959 $aFAGBC 996 $aFlora Aetnea, seu Descriptio plantarum in monte Aetna sponte nascentium$91466711 997 $aUNINA