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Matter and method in the long chemical revolution : laws of another order / / Victor D. Boantza
| Matter and method in the long chemical revolution : laws of another order / / Victor D. Boantza |
| Autore | Boantza Victor D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Collana | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Science, Renaissance |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-09933-8
1-315-59433-1 1-4094-1868-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Duclos and Chymistry at the Early Académie des Sciences; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Historiography; Scientific Revolutions and Crises; Structure and Themes; PART I: Chymistry in the Scientific Revolution; 1 Duclos Reads Boyle; The Crisis of Chymical Principles; The Origin and Form of Sweet Qualities; Duclos's Principles; Particles of Saltpeter: Mechanism and Chymical Causality; On Boyle's Unsuccessful Experiments; Conclusion; 2 Fire, Alkahest, and Elements; Duclos's Chymical Natural History of Plants
Dodart Enters the Arena: Natural History by FireRadical Analysis and the Inner Life of Matter; Conclusion; 3 From Cohesion to Gravity; The Causes of Gravity; Forces, Big and Small: The Newtonian Context; The Causes of Coagulation: Chymical Operations and Mechanical Speculations; Conclusion; 4 Interlude: The Crisis of Inter-Revolutionary Chemistry; PART II: Chemistry in the Chemical Revolution; 5 Priestley's Quest for Airs and Ideas; Priestley's Chemical Practice and Writing(s); Experimental Commitments: The Case of Nitrous Air; Method, Text, and Epistemology; Conclusion 6 Pneumatic Metaphysics: Scheele, Crawford, and KirwanKirwan's Work and Writings on Phlogiston; Phlogistic Transmutations and Pneumatic Metaphysics; The Phlogistic Constitution and Role of Heat; Kirwan Enters the Arena: Innovations and Renovations; Conclusion; 7 Operational Uniformity and a "false shew of simplicity"; From Vapors to Facts; From Proportions to Quantities; The Force of Affinity and Affinity as a Force; From Uniformity to Simplicity; Conclusion; "Laws of Another Order": Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462925303321 |
Boantza Victor D.
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Matter and method in the long chemical revolution : laws of another order / / Victor D. Boantza
| Matter and method in the long chemical revolution : laws of another order / / Victor D. Boantza |
| Autore | Boantza Victor D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Collana | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Science, Renaissance |
| ISBN |
1-4724-0398-3
1-317-09933-8 1-315-59433-1 1-4094-1868-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Duclos and Chymistry at the Early Académie des Sciences; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Historiography; Scientific Revolutions and Crises; Structure and Themes; PART I: Chymistry in the Scientific Revolution; 1 Duclos Reads Boyle; The Crisis of Chymical Principles; The Origin and Form of Sweet Qualities; Duclos's Principles; Particles of Saltpeter: Mechanism and Chymical Causality; On Boyle's Unsuccessful Experiments; Conclusion; 2 Fire, Alkahest, and Elements; Duclos's Chymical Natural History of Plants
Dodart Enters the Arena: Natural History by FireRadical Analysis and the Inner Life of Matter; Conclusion; 3 From Cohesion to Gravity; The Causes of Gravity; Forces, Big and Small: The Newtonian Context; The Causes of Coagulation: Chymical Operations and Mechanical Speculations; Conclusion; 4 Interlude: The Crisis of Inter-Revolutionary Chemistry; PART II: Chemistry in the Chemical Revolution; 5 Priestley's Quest for Airs and Ideas; Priestley's Chemical Practice and Writing(s); Experimental Commitments: The Case of Nitrous Air; Method, Text, and Epistemology; Conclusion 6 Pneumatic Metaphysics: Scheele, Crawford, and KirwanKirwan's Work and Writings on Phlogiston; Phlogistic Transmutations and Pneumatic Metaphysics; The Phlogistic Constitution and Role of Heat; Kirwan Enters the Arena: Innovations and Renovations; Conclusion; 7 Operational Uniformity and a "false shew of simplicity"; From Vapors to Facts; From Proportions to Quantities; The Force of Affinity and Affinity as a Force; From Uniformity to Simplicity; Conclusion; "Laws of Another Order": Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786951703321 |
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Boantza Victor D.
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Matter and method in the long chemical revolution : laws of another order / / Victor D. Boantza
| Matter and method in the long chemical revolution : laws of another order / / Victor D. Boantza |
| Autore | Boantza Victor D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Collana | Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Science, Renaissance |
| ISBN |
1-4724-0398-3
1-317-09933-8 1-315-59433-1 1-4094-1868-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Duclos and Chymistry at the Early Académie des Sciences; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Historiography; Scientific Revolutions and Crises; Structure and Themes; PART I: Chymistry in the Scientific Revolution; 1 Duclos Reads Boyle; The Crisis of Chymical Principles; The Origin and Form of Sweet Qualities; Duclos's Principles; Particles of Saltpeter: Mechanism and Chymical Causality; On Boyle's Unsuccessful Experiments; Conclusion; 2 Fire, Alkahest, and Elements; Duclos's Chymical Natural History of Plants
Dodart Enters the Arena: Natural History by FireRadical Analysis and the Inner Life of Matter; Conclusion; 3 From Cohesion to Gravity; The Causes of Gravity; Forces, Big and Small: The Newtonian Context; The Causes of Coagulation: Chymical Operations and Mechanical Speculations; Conclusion; 4 Interlude: The Crisis of Inter-Revolutionary Chemistry; PART II: Chemistry in the Chemical Revolution; 5 Priestley's Quest for Airs and Ideas; Priestley's Chemical Practice and Writing(s); Experimental Commitments: The Case of Nitrous Air; Method, Text, and Epistemology; Conclusion 6 Pneumatic Metaphysics: Scheele, Crawford, and KirwanKirwan's Work and Writings on Phlogiston; Phlogistic Transmutations and Pneumatic Metaphysics; The Phlogistic Constitution and Role of Heat; Kirwan Enters the Arena: Innovations and Renovations; Conclusion; 7 Operational Uniformity and a "false shew of simplicity"; From Vapors to Facts; From Proportions to Quantities; The Force of Affinity and Affinity as a Force; From Uniformity to Simplicity; Conclusion; "Laws of Another Order": Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824702603321 |
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Boantza Victor D.
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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