Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball /

Levere, Trevor Harvey.

Transforming matter : a history of chemistry from alchemy to the buckyball / Trevor H. Levere. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : illustrations - Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science . - Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First steps: from alchemy to chemistry? -- Robert Boyle: chemistry and experiment -- A German story: what burns, and how -- An enlightened discipline: chemistry as science and craft -- Different kinds of air -- Theory and practice: the tools of revolution -- Atoms and elements -- The rise of organic chemistry -- Atomic weights revisited -- The birth of the teaching-research laboratory -- Atoms in space -- Physical chemistry: a discipline comes of age -- The nature of the chemical bond -- Where now, and where next? new frontiers -- Suggested further reading.

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Chemistry--History.
Alchemy.
Chemistry--history
Alchemy
History, Modern 1601-
Chimie--Histoire.
Alchimie.
Médecine--Histoire--1500-
alchemy.
SCIENCE--Chemistry--General.
Chemistry.
Chemie
Geschichte
Chemie.
Chemistry - General.
Chemistry.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.


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