Screen LibraryThe scientist's atom and the philosopher's stone：how science succeeded and philosophy failed to gain knowledge of atoms
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 279 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2362-9 |
| Carrier Form: | 287 p.: ill. |
| ISBN: |
9048123623 (electronic bk.) 9789048123629 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | O562 |
| CLC: | O562-09 |
| Contents: |
Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and indexes. Atomism : science or philosophy? -- Democritean atomism -- How does Epicurus's garden grow? -- Atomism in its ancient Greek perspective -- From the ancient Greeks to the dawn of science -- Atomism, experiment and the mechanical philosophy : the work of Robert Boyle -- Newton's atomism and its fate -- The emergence of modern chemistry with no debt to atomism -- Dalton's atomism and tis creative modification via chemical formulae -- From Avogadro to Cannizzaro : the old story -- Thermodynamics and the kinetic theory -- Experimental contact with molecules -- Experimental contact with electrons -- Atomism vindicated? |