This set covers a century's literature on discovery in chemistry, incorporating both classic works by eminent chemists (including Faraday and Boyle) and a selection of journal articles which present science to a general readership. It covers all aspects of the science: experimental, theoretical, pure and applied chemistry, and also chemical education. Since chemistry eveolved as a European science, the set includes books by chemists of various nationalities, in the best available translations. It allows the reader an overview of the development of the science through the eyes of notable...
This set covers a century's literature on discovery in chemistry, incorporating both classic works by eminent chemists (including Faraday and Boyle) a...
In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc lamp, for isolating sodium and potassium, for his theory that chemical affinity is electrical and, of course, for his safety lamp. His lectures on science made the fortunes of the Royal Institution in London, and he taught chemistry to the young Faraday. He is also recognized for his poetry and was the friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth and...
In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks and informal writings to introduce us to one ...
In this unconventional history of chemistry, David Knight takes the refreshing view that the science has "its glorious future behind it." Today, chemistry is primarily a service science. In its very long history, though, chemistry has taken on very different roles. It has been the esoteric preoccupation of alchemists, the source of mechanist views of matter, the cornerstone of all other sciences and medicine, an archetype of experimental science, a science of revolutions, a science that imposed order on the material world, and a partner for physics, biology, and...
In this unconventional history of chemistry, David Knight takes the refreshing view that the science has "its glorious future behind it." Today, ch...
