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Harvard case histories in experimental science / James Bryant Conant, general editor [and others].
LIBRA Q125 .C57 v. 1 v. 2
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LIBRA Q125 .C57 v. 1 v. 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 509 C7421 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Science--Experiments.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xvi, 639 pages) : illustrations, diagrams ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1957.
- Contents:
- Introduction / J. Conant
- 1. Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics / J. Conant
- 2. The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory: The Chemical Revolution of 1775-1789 / J. Conant
- 3. The Early Development of the Concepts of Temperature and Heat... / D. Roller
- 4. The Atomic-Molecular Theory / L. Nash
- 5. Plants and the Atmosphere / L. Nash
- 6. Pasteur's Study of Fermentation / J. Conant
- 7. Pasteur's and Tyndall's study of Spontaneous Generation / J. Conant
- 8. The Development of the Concept of Electric Charge... / D. Roller.
- Notes:
- Each case published also separately under its respective title in the Harvard case histories in experimental science series.
- Includes bibliographies.
- OCLC:
- 169845
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