A History of Chemistry - Couverture rigide

Moore, Forris Jewett

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1341216713 ISBN 13 : 9781341216718

Editeur : Palala Press, 2015

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This volume is the outgrowth of a series of talks which the author has for several jears given to his students at the Institute ofT echnology, the hearers being members of the senior class sjjeciahzing in chemistry, and hence famihar with its more important facts and principles. The lectures have dealt in a direct informal way with the fundamental ideas of the science: their origin, their philosophical basis, the critical periods in their development, and the personalities of the great men whose efforts have contributed to that development. Put in book form the material has inevitably been somewhat expanded, and just as inevitably its presentation has assumed a more formal tone, without, it is hoped, losing all its spontaneity. Here, as before, the person addressed is the more mature student of chemistrj-, though it is beheved that few portions of the book will present serious difficulties to the general reader. The aim has been to emphasize only those facts and influences which have contributed to make the science what it is today; hence such topics as the chemical achievements of the ancients and the history of alchemy have been compressed beyond the point which the tastes and inclinations of the Titer might alone have dictated. In the dbcussion of later work, also, the claim of a topic for consideration has been not its practical but its historical importance. It has been asked, not whether the work was itself of value, but did it contribute anew fundamental idea. For this reason, to cite a single instance, the work of Werner on the metal-ammonias has been discussed at some length, while that of Emil Fischer on the sugars has been dismissed with a single word. Some modern topics, also, hke the work of Werner just mentioned, or that of Bragg upon X-ray spectra have been treated in considerable detail because they he outside the field familiar to most under
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1341216713
• ISBN 13: 9781341216718
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 362