Enlightenment Science in the Romantic Era - The Chemistry of Berzelius and Its Cultural Setting

Klappentext Jacob Berzelius (1779 1848)! one of the world's leading scientists in the first half of the nineteenth century! dominated the field of chemistry! animated the cultural life of his native Sweden! and served for three decades as perpetual secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Despite his immense stature! modern studies have underestimated his significance. This volume remedies the scarcity of accessible! modern assessments of Berzelius by bringing to a broad audience the results of recent scholarship! and it offers an enhanced assessment of his originality and influence. Zusammenfassung This volume remedies the scarcity of accessible! modern assessments of Berzelius by bringing to a broad audience the results of recent scholarship! and it offers an enhanced assessment of his originality and influence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Berzelius and his time; 2. 'Truth, The Angel of Light': Berzelius, Agardh and Hwasser; 3. Berzelius and the atomic theory: the intellectual background; 4. Berzelius, Dalton and the chemical atom; 5. Berzelius's animal chemistry: from physiology to organic chemisty, 1805-1814; 6. Novelty and tradition in the chemistry of Berzelius (1803-1819); 7. Berzelius as godfather of isomorphism; 8. Berzelius, the dualistic hypothesis, and the rise of organic chemistry; 9. Berzelius as a European traveller; A selected bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Evan M. (University of Illinois Melhado, Evan M. Frangsmyr Melhado
• Assisted by: Tore Frangsmyr (Editor), Tore Frdngsmyr (Editor), Frdngsmyr Tore (Editor), Evan M. Melhado (Editor), Melhado Evan M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.1992
• EAN: 9780521417754
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41775-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: University of Cambridge Orient
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, chemistry, History of Science