The Norton History of Chemistry

by Brock, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780393035360
• ISBN10: 0393035360
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Recounts the rise of a sophisticated science, from the alchemists' futile attempts to turn lead into gold, to the breakthroughs of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Note
Introduction
On the Nature of the Universe and the Hermetic Museum	p. 1
Chinese Alchemy
Greek Alchemy
Arabic and Medieval Alchemy
Newton's Alchemy
The Demise of Alchemy and its Literary Tradition
The Sceptical Chymist	p. 41
Paracelsianism
Helmontianism
The Acid-Alkali Theory
A Sceptical Chemist
Boyle's Physical Theory of Matter
The Vacuum Boylianum and its Aftermath
Newton's Chemistry
The Phlogistonists
Elements of Chemistry	p. 87
A Scientific Civil Servant
The Chemistry of Air
The Chemical Revolution
The Aftermath
A New System of Chemical Philosophy	p. 128
Dalton's 'New System'
Dalton's Life
The Atomic Theory
The Origins of Dalton's Theory
Electrifying Dalton's Theory
Chemical Reactivity
Prout's Hypothesis
Volumetric Relations
Scepticism Towards Atomism
Instructions for the Analysis of Organic Bodies	p. 173
Purity
The Basis of Chemistry
The Supply of Apparatus and Chemicals
Liebig, Organic Analysis and the Research School
Chemical Method	p. 210
Classifying by Radicals
Classification by Types
On the Constitution and Metamorphoses of Chemical Compounds	p. 241
The Establishment of Quantivalence
Kekule and the Theory of Chemical Structure
The Triumph of Structural Theory
Chemistry Applied to Arts and Manufactures	p. 270
The Alkali Industry
Dyestuffs and Colouring
Principles of Chemistry	p. 311
Sorting the Elements
The Rare Earths
The Inert Gases
Manufacturing Elements
Mendeleev's Principles
On the Dissociation of Substances Dissolved in Water	p. 355
Proto-Physical Chemistry
Raoult and van't Hoff
Electrochemistry from Faraday to Arrhenius
The Ionic Theory
The Reception of the Ionic Theory
How to Teach Chemistry	p. 396
Frankland's State-sponsored Chemistry
Armstrong's Heuristic Method
Twentieth-century Developments in Teaching
The Laboratory
The Chemical News	p. 436
Forming Chemical Societies
The Chemical Periodical
William Crookes, Chemical Editor
The Nature of the Chemical Bond	p. 462
The Lewis Atom
Spreading the Electronic Theory
The Pauling Bond
Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry	p. 506
The Lapworth-Thiele-Robinson Tradition
The Michael-Flurscheim-Vorlander Tradition
The Electronic Theory of Organic Reactions
Organizing the Structure of Organic Chemistry
The Kinetics of Mechanisms
The Spread of Physical Organic Chemistry
Aromaticity
The Non-classical Ion Debate
The Renaissance of Inorganic Chemistry	p. 570
Werner's New Ideas
Sidgwick's Electronic Interpretation of Co-ordination Chemistry
Australian Chemistry
Australian and Japanese Chemistry
Co-ordination Chemistry in Australia
Nyholm's Renaissance
At the Sign of the Hexagon	p. 619
Synthesis
Industrial Chemistry
Chemistry and the Environment
Epilogue	p. 663
Appendix: History of Chemistry Museums and Collections	p. 665
Notes	p. 669
Bibliographical Essay	p. 674
Index	p. 715
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