Author: Frank Jenkins
Publisher: Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
ISBN: 9782893103266
Category : Chemistry
Languages : fr
Pages : 576

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Author: Gerard Lemaine
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110819031
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Author: Frank Jenkins
Publisher: Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
ISBN: 9782893103334
Category : Chemistry
Languages : fr
Pages : 169

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Publisher: Assemblée nationale
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197502520
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of chemistry as an experimental science. While some historical and philosophical scholars have examined his nuanced position, understanding the chemical philosophy he developed through his own experimental work is incredibly difficult even for experts in the field. In The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle, Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino energetically explains Boyle's ideas in a whole new light and proposes that Boyle regarded chemical qualities as non-reducible dispositional and relational properties that emerge from, and supervene upon, the mechanistic structure of chymical atoms. Banchetti-Robino demonstrates that these ideas are implicit in Boyle's writing, making his philosophical contributions crucial to the fields of both philosophy and chemistry. The arguments presented are further strengthened by a detailed mereological analysis of Boylean chymical atoms as chemically elementary entities, which establishes the theory of wholes and parts that is most consistent with an emergentist conception of chemical properties. More generally, this book examines the way in which Boyle sought to accommodate his complex chemical philosophy within the framework of the 17th century mechanistic theory of matter. Banchetti-Robino conceptualizes Boyle's experimental work as a scientific research programme, in the Lakatosian sense, to better explain the positive and negative heuristic function of the mechanistic theory of matter within his chemical philosophy. The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle actively engages with the contemporary and lively debates over the nature of Boyle's ideas about structural chemistry, fundamental mechanistic particles and properties, the explanatory power of subordinate causes, the complex relation between fundamental particles, natural kinds, and unified chemical wholes. The book is a rich historical account that begins with the dominant paradigms of 16th and 17th Century chemical philosophy and takes readers all the way through to the 21st Century.

Author: Isabel Malaquias
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527524973
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Overlooked, even despised by historians of chemistry for many years, the genre of biography has enjoyed a revival since the beginning of this century. The key to its renaissance is the use of the biographical form to provide a contextual analysis of important themes in contrast to the uncritical, almost hagiographic, lives of chemists written in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Bringing together the contributions of scholars active in several different countries, Perspectives on Chemical Biography in the 21st Century leads the reader through emerging questions around sources, and the generic problems faced by authors of biographies, before moving on to discuss aspects more related with physical, theoretical and inorganic chemistry, and facets of 19th century chemistry. In contrast to the letters and diaries of earlier chemists, we are now faced with scientists who communicate by telephone and email, and compose their documents on computers. Are we facing a modern equivalent of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria where all our sources are wiped out electronically?

Author: G.P. Putnam & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Peter B Doeringer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349044423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674396593
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Presents chemistry as a science in search of an identity, or rather as a science whose identity has changed in response to its relation to society and other disciplines. This book discusses the conceptual, experimental, and technological challenges with wh