Książka Experiments, Models, Paper Tools Ursula Klein

Experiments, Models, Paper Tools

Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Autor: Ursula Klein
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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In the early nineteenth century, chemistry emerged in Europe as a truly experimental discipline. Wha...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2002
strony
320
EAN
9780804743594
ISBN
0804743592
Enbook ID
05136617
Waga
574
Wymiary
236 x 158 x 32

Pełny opis

In the early nineteenth century, chemistry emerged in Europe as a truly experimental discipline. What set this process in motion, and how did it evolve? Experimentalization in chemistry was driven by a seemingly innocuous tool: the sign system of chemical formulas invented by the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius. By tracing the history of this "paper tool," the author reveals how chemistry quickly lost its orientation to natural history and became a major productive force in industrial society. These formulas were not merely a convenient shorthand, but productive tools for creating order amid the chaos of early nineteenth-century organic chemistry. With these formulas, chemists could create a multifaceted world on paper, which they then correlated with experiments and the traces produced in test tubes and flasks. The author's semiotic approach to the formulas allows her to show in detail how their particular semantic and representational qualities made them especially useful as paper tools for productive application.

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