A history of chemistry / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Deborah v...
A history of chemistry / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Deborah v...
A history of chemistry / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Deborah van Dam.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Date
1996.
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T0388867
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Language
English
French
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Physical Description
Physical content
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1996.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Beginning with chemistry's polymorphous beginnings, featuring many independent discoveries all over the globe, the narrative moves to a discussion of chemistry's niche in the eighteenth-century notion of Natural Philosophy and on to its nineteenth-century role as an exemplary scientific means of reaching positive knowledge. The authors also address...
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A history of chemistry / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Deborah van Dam.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.
Transferred from N540.9/50.
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T0388867
Record Identifier
74VMjNkNgKyg
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ISBN
0674396596 (alk. paper)
9780674396593 (alk. paper)
DDC
540.9
MMS ID
991001174089702626
