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From Elements to Atoms: A History of Chemical Composition (Transaction 92-4)
From Elements to Atoms

 
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By Robert Siegfried
Year: 2002
Pages: 278
Binding Paperback
ISBN 0871699249


Product Code: 0871699249

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Transaction 92 No. 4
Seeking to enlarge an understanding of the nature of chemical science & explain how the concepts being taught in the classroom came to be, Siegfried presents a simple, readable account of how in the 18th cent. chemical composition slowly abandoned the centuries- long tradition of metaphysical elements of earth, air, fire, & water. Through the work of such scientist as Lavoisier, Dalton, & Davy, chemical theory moved from metaphysical elements to operationally functional atoms. The book is based on chemical writings of 17th- & 18th-cent. chemists; references to recently published secondary works are intended for the benefit of readers who wish to enlarge their  perspectives on the development of early chemical thinking.

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