The Limits of Matter - Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment

By studying the chemists at the Swedish Bureau of Mines and their networks, and integrating their practices into the wider European context, the author illustrates how they and their successors played a significant role in the development of our modern notion of matter and made a significant contribution to the modern European view of reality.

Info autore

Hjalmar Fors is a researcher and teacher in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Riassunto

By studying the chemists at the Swedish Bureau of Mines and their networks, and integrating their practices into the wider European context, the author illustrates how they and their successors played a significant role in the development of our modern notion of matter and made a significant contribution to the modern European view of reality.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hjalmar Fors, Fors Hjalmar
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.01.2015
• EAN: 9780226194998
• ISBN: 978-0-226-19499-8
• Pagine: 248
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Synthesis; Synthesis; Synthesis (CHUP)
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800