Laws and Order in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

Name: Laws and Order in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
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ISBN: 9780198558064

ISBN-10: 0198558066

ISBN-13: 9780198558064

Edition: 1996

Authors: Alistair Duncan

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The eighteenth century was the formative period in which chemistry established itself as an autonomous discipline with its own concepts and modes of explanation, independent of mathematical physics. Yet much previous writing in this area has concentrated on theories derived from more traditional fields such as physics. This book traces chemistry's transition from alchemy to its own branch of knowledge. It describes the growth of affinity tables, which chemists hoped would lead to the induction of predictive laws, and which represented their unofficial list of elements which eventually through the work of Lavoisier replaced the traditional Aristotelian list. The book also discusses chemists'…

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/11/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 262
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.50" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




The background of eighteenth century chemistry



Chemical affinity and attraction in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries



Physical theories and their reception by chemists



Tables of affinity and of elective attractions



Classificaiton, quantification, and explanation


Index