Research Catalog

Title

The historical background of chemistry.

Author

Leicester, Henry Marshall, 1906-

Publication

New York, Wiley [©1956]

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Details

Description

vii, 260 pages illustrations

Series Statement

Dover books on physics [series]

Uniform Title

Dover books on physics series.

Subject

• Chemistry > History
• Chemistry > history
• 35.01 history of chemistry
• Chemistry
• Chemie
• Geschichte
• Chemie
• Chimie > Histoire
• Chimie > Origines

Genre/Form

• History.
• History (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Early practical chemistry -- Scientific ideas of the ancient world -- Greek science -- Hellinistic culture and the rise of alchemy -- Chinese alchemy -- Arabic alchemy -- The transmission of chemistry to the west -- The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The sixteenth century, a period of technical chemistry -- Chemical practice and theory in the first half of the seventeenth century -- The spread of atomistic theories -- Theories of the eighteenth century : phlogiston and affinity -- Laboratory discoveries of the eighteenth century : the chemistry of gases -- Lavosier and the foundation of modern chemistry -- The laws of atomic combination -- Electrochemistry and chemical affinity -- The development of organic chemistry : the radical and unitary theories -- Organic chemistry from the theory of types to the structural theory -- The systematization of inorganic chemistry -- Physical chemistry in the nineteenth century -- The development of chemistry as a profession during the nineteenth century -- Radioactivity and atomic structure -- Biochemistry.

LCCN

56008001

OCLC

• ocm00191161
• 191161
• SCSB-131894

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library