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    Image and Reality: Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination

    Alan J. Rocke

    Chemists in the nineteenth century were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. This title focuses on…

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    From the Molecular World: A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy

    Alan J. Rocke

    Hermann Kopp (1817-1892) is best remembered today as a historian of chemistry, but during his lifetime he was one of the most eminent chemists of his day, and one of…

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    Lothar Meyer: Modern Theories and Pathways to Periodicity

    Gisela Boeck,Alan J. Rocke

    This book provides an English translation of the early fundamental contributions of Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) regarding his independent discovery, coincident with that of Dmitrii Mendeleev, of the periodic system of…

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    Lothar Meyer: Moderne Theorien und Wege zum Periodensystem

    Gisela Boeck,Alan J. Rocke

    Dieser Band stellt die grundlegenden Beitrage von Lothar Meyer im Zusammenhang mit seiner Entdeckung des Periodensystems vor, die zwar fast zeitgleich, aber unabhangig der von Dmitrij I. Mendeleev erfolgte. Dafur…

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    A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age

    Looks at the impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy in the "chemical age" from 1914 to the present.

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    A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

    Explores the birth of modern chemistry in the period from 1815-1914, looking at the elaboration of atomic theory, the growth of the chemical industry, new instruments and practices, the chemical…

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    A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

    Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium…

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    A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age

    Traces chemical debates and practices within their cultural, social and political contexts during the period from 1500-1700.

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    A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

    Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a "chemical revolution" from 1700-1815.

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    A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

    Explores alchemy and alchemical practice in the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures.

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