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Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262374477
Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 July 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14959.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262374477
A compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry's quest to understand and manipulate organic nature. According to existing histories, theory drove chemistry's remarkable nineteenth-century development. In Molecular World , Catherine M. Jackson shows instead how novel experimental approaches combined with what she calls “laboratory reasoning” enabled chemists to bridge wet chemistry and abstract concepts and, in so doing, create the molecular world. Jackson introduces a series of practice-based breakthroughs that include chemistry's move into lampworked glassware, the field's turn to synthesis and subsequent struggles to characterize and differentiate the products of synthesis, and the gradual development of institutional chemical laboratories, an advance accelerated by synthesis and the dangers it introduced. Jackson's historical reassessment emerges from the investigation of alkaloids by German chemists Justus Liebig, August Wilhelm Hofmann, and Albert Ladenburg. Stymied in his own research, Liebig steered his student Hofmann into pioneering synthesis as a new investigative method. Hofmann's practice-based laboratory reasoning produced a major theoretical advance, but he failed to make alkaloids. That landmark fell to Ladenburg, who turned to cutting-edge theory only after his successful synthesis. In telling the story of these scientists and their peers, Jackson reveals organic synthesis as the ground chemists stood upon to forge a new relationship between experiment and theory—with far-reaching consequences for chemistry as a discipline.
Book: Analog
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 January 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13644.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262371810
Book: Analog
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 January 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13644.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262371810
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