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Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination
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Title
Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke.
ISBN
9780226723327 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226723321 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xxvi, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 02, 2010
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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