From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

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  • From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry Book Detail

  • Author : Mary Jo Nye
  • Release Date : 1994-03-01
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Genre : Science
  • Pages : 357
  • ISBN 13 : 0520913566
  • File Size : 69,69 MB
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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry by Mary Jo Nye PDF Summary

Book Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteenth century to Robinson, Ingold, and Pauling in the mid-twentieth century. Using the notion of a disciplinary "identity" analogous to ethnic or national identity, Nye develops a theory of the nature of disciplinary structure and change. She discusses the distinctive character of chemical language and theories and the role of national styles and traditions in building a scientific discipline. Anyone interested in the history of scientific thought will enjoy pondering with her the question of whether chemists of the mid-twentieth century suspected chemical explanation had been reduced to physical laws, just as Newtonian mechanical philosophers had envisioned in the eighteenth century.

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