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Chemistry
History
Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Powers John C.
ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones
In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...
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Chemistry
Life Atomic A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
Creager Angela N. H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226323961, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, October 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 21 line drawings
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxi...
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Chemistry
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Secrets of Alchemy
Principe Lawrence M.
ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.
Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...
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Chemistry
Image and Reality Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination
Rocke Alan J.
ISBN: HB: 9780226723327, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2010
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line drawings, 44 halftones
Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level p...
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