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Zusatztext '... historians will find useful insights into the social and cultural world of chemists in Britain and Germany.' Metascience Informationen zum Autor Professor Colin A. Russell! The Open University and the University of Cambridge. UK Zusammenfassung Focuses on the history of organic chemistry, which arose improbably out of early speculations about the construction of chemical compounds, and their electrochemical nature. Dealing with the rise of electrochemistry and the work of Berzelius, this book considers aspects of the contributions of Frankland and those of Kekule and Hofmann. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; 'Rude and disgraceful beginnings': a view of the history of chemistry from the 19th century; The electrochemical theory of Sir Humphry Davy - I: the voltaic pile and electrolysis; II: Electrical interpretations of chemistry; II: The evidence of the Royal Institution manuscripts; The electrochemical theory of Berzelius - I: origins of the theory; II: An electrochemical view of matter; Berzelius and the development of the atomic theory; Introduction to Essai sur la Théorie des Proportions Chimiques et sur l'influence Chimique de l'Ã?lectricité! by J.J. Berzelius; Chemistry on the edge of Europe: growth and decline in Sweden; The archives of Sir Edward Frankland: resources! problems and methods; Chemical techniques in a pre-electronic age: the remarkable apparatus of Edward Frankland; Kekulé and Frankland: a psychological puzzle?; Early concepts of aromatic substitution; August Wilhelm Hofman! cosmopolitan chemist; The changing role of synthesis in organic chemistry; The origins of conformational analysis; Advances in organic chemistry over the last 100 years; Chemical bonds 1841-1991: 150 years of the British chemical community; Index.
