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" Image and reality : "
Alan J. Rocke.
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979391
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b733761
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Rocke, Alan J.,1948-
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Image and reality : : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination /\ Alan J. Rocke.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2010.
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Synthesis
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1 online resource (xxvi, 375 pages) :: illustrations
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0226723356
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: 9780226723358
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0226723321
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9780226723327
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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 philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for a fuller understanding of the nature of scientific creativity. Arguing that visual mental images regularly assisted many of these scientists in thinking through old problems and new possib.
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Kekulé, August,1829-1896.
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Kopp, Hermann,1817-1892.
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Kekulé, August,1829-1896.
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Kopp, Hermann,1817-1892.
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Chemistry, Organic-- History-- 19th century.
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Imagination.
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Science-- Methodology-- History.
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Visualization.
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Chemistry, Organic.
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Imagination.
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SCIENCE-- Chemistry-- General.
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Science-- Methodology.
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Visualization.
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| Dewey Classification
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540.9/034
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QD248.R63 2010eb
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