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Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke.
LIBRA QD248 .R63 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rocke, Alan J., 1948-
- Series:
- Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
- Synthesis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry, Organic--History--19th century.
- Chemistry, Organic.
- Science--Methodology--History.
- Science.
- Science--Methodology.
- History.
- Imagination.
- Visualization.
- Kekulé, August, 1829-1896.
- Kekulé, August.
- Kopp, Hermann, 1817-1892.
- Kopp, Hermann.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Ether/or
- Springtime for chemistry?
- The education of Alexander Williamson
- Interpreting chemical atoms
- Williamson and Graham
- Grasping the ether
- The experimental dissection of organic molecules
- Excursus: isolated radicals?
- The spread of Williamsonian theory
- The architect of molecules
- The education of August Kekulé
- Kekulé in London
- Excursus: the road to Valence
- Molecular dreams
- Building an unseen structure
- The start of a teaching career
- Early work in Heidelberg
- The theory of polyatomic radicals
- The theory of atomicity of the elements
- Molecular epistemology
- A barometer of the science
- Writing a textbook
- Formulas, models, reality
- Excursus: a case in point
- Erlenmeyer and Kekulé
- Constant or variable atomicity?
- The heuristics of molecular representation
- Couper
- Loschmidt
- Butlerov
- Crum Brown
- Excursus: heurism in action
- The fate of the new graphic formulas
- Molecules as metaphors
- Natural types
- Absolute formulas
- Excursus: looking through the stereoscope
- Molecular democracy or autocracy?
- The revenge of Jupiter's children
- Aromatic apparitions
- First approaches to the problem
- Enter the hexagon
- Benzene through the phenakistoscope
- Excursus: ring around the rosie
- Metachemistry?
- Dimensional molecules
- Early stereospatial speculations
- The spiral staircase
- The pyramid
- Imagination in science: point/counterpoint
- Chemists, physicists, and the microworld
- Kopp's world
- The making of a chemist-historian
- In amongst the molecules
- The response
- The thirsty chemists
- Kekulé's dreams
- The festivities in Berlin
- Kekulé's speech
- The aftermath
- The eureka experience and the unconscious mind
- The scientific image-ination
- Mental images and science
- Mental images and history
- Transdictive images in physics and in chemistry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226723327
- 0226723321
- OCLC:
- 419263942
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