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Bezig met laden... Creations Of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History From Alchemy To The Atomic Agedoor Cathy Cobb
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I suppose you could call this a good introductory read to the history of chemistry and the details of its understanding. However, the problem, in my opinion, with this book is that it is a popular history; and as such it has little of any real information. The book in its entirety truly does read more like a history than a scientific treatise, and contains more biographic commentary that chemical information. This heads to the point that the book does not treat the subject as a development of scientific knowledge or understanding, but focuses on the incidents of its history and the personalities involved therein. In conclusion: despite its great size and grand scope this book is entirely too light and lacks in critical thought or examination. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
he history of chemistry is a story of human endeavor-and as er T ratic as human nature itself. Progress has been made in fits and starts, and it has come from all parts of the globe. Because the scope of this history is considerable (some 100,000 years), it is necessary to impose some order, and we have organized the text around three dis cemible-albeit gross--divisions of time: Part 1 (Chaps. 1-7) covers 100,000 BeE (Before Common Era) to the late 1700s and presents the background of the Chemical Revolution; Part 2 (Chaps. 8-14) covers the late 1700s to World War land presents the Chemical Revolution and its consequences; Part 3 (Chaps. 15-20) covers World War I to 1950 and presents the Quantum Revolution and its consequences and hints at revolutions to come. There have always been two tributaries to the chemical stream: experiment and theory. But systematic experimental methods were not routinely employed until the 1600s-and quantitative theories did not evolve until the 1700s-and it can be argued that modem chernistry as a science did not begin until the Chemical Revolution in the 1700s. xi xii PREFACE We argue however that the first experiments were performed by arti sans and the first theories proposed by philosophers-and that a rev olution can be understood only in terms of what is being revolted against. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)540.9Natural sciences and mathematics Chemistry Chemistry Biography And HistoryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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