LEADER 04077nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910458377303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-64642-7 010 $a9786612646423 010 $a0-226-72335-6 024 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(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$b[electronic resource] $eKekule?, Kopp, and the scientific imagination /$fAlan J. Rocke 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 $a0-226-72332-1 320 $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 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChemistry, Organic$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xMethodology$xHistory. 615 0$aImagination. 615 0$aVisualization. 676 $a540.9/034 700 $aRocke$b Alan J.$f1948-$0975600 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458377303321 996 $aImage and reality$92221472 997 $aUNINA