Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / / Trevor H. Levere
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| Autore: |
Levere Trevor Harvey
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| Titolo: |
Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / / Trevor H. Levere
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 540/.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chemistry - History |
| Alchemy | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 First Steps; 2 Robert Boyle; 3 A German Story; 4 An Enlightened Discipline; 5 Different Kinds of Air; 6 Theory and Practice; 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; 13 The Nature of the Chemical Bond; 14 Where Now, and Where Next? New Frontiers; Suggested Further Reading; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Transforming Matter provides an accessible and clearly written introduction to the history of chemistry, telling the story of how the discipline has developed over the years. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transforming matter |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-7363-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810945103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science.