Victor D Boantza

Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution

Laws of Another Order

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Produktbeschreibung

Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution examines the role of and effects on chemistry of both the seventeenth-century scientific revolution and the eighteenth-century chemical revolution in parallel, using chemistry during the chemical revolution to illuminate chemistry during the scientific revolution, and vice versa. Focusing on the crises and conflicts of early modern chemistry (and their retrospectively labeled 'losing' parties), the author traces patterns of continuity in matter theory and experimental method from Boyle to Lavoisier, and reevaluates the disciplinary relationships between chemists, mechanists, and Newtonians in France, England, and Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781409418672
• ISBN-10: 1409418677
• Artikelnr.: 44556862

Autorenporträt

Victor D. Boantza is a professor in the History of Science and Technology Program at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Chymistry in the Scientific Revolution
Chapter 101 Duclos and Chymistry at the Early Académie des Sciences
Chapter 1 Duclos Reads Boyle
Chapter 2 Fire, Alkahest, and Elements
Chapter 3 From Cohesion to Gravity
Chapter 4 Interlude
Part II Chemistry in the Chemical Revolution
Chapter 5 Priestley's Quest for Airs and Ideas
Chapter 6 Pneumatic Metaphysics
Chapter 7 Operational Uniformity and a "false shew of simplicity"
Chapter 102 "Laws of Another Order"