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From alchemy to chemistry in picture and story / Arthur Greenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2007.Description: xxiii, 637 pages [24] pages illustrations (some colors) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780471751540
  • 0471751545
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 540.9
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Partial contents:
Practical Chemistry: Mining, Metallurgy and War -- Spiritual and Allegorical Alchemy and Chemistry -- Medicines, Purges, and Ointments -- An Emerging Science -- The Chemical Revolution -- A Young Democracy and a New Chemistry -- Chemistry Begins to Specialize, Systemize, and Help the Farm and the Factory -- Teaching Chemistry to the Masses -- Chemistry Enters the Modern Age -- Some Brief Chemical Amusements.
Abstract: Chemistry has perhaps the most intricate, most fascinating, and certainly most romantic history of all the sciences. Arthur Greenberg's essays-delightful, learned, quirky, highly personal, and richly illustrated with contemporary drawings (many of great rarity and beauty)-provide a kaleidoscope of intellectual landscapes, bringing the experiments, the ideas, and the human figures of chemistry's past intensely alive
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Colección general Colección general Biblioteca Yachay Tech 540.9 G7985f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Ej. 1 Available 002270
Colección general Colección general Biblioteca Yachay Tech 540.9 G7985f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Ej. 2 Available 002271
Colección general Colección general Biblioteca Yachay Tech 540.9 G7985f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Ej. 3 Available 002272
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Practical Chemistry: Mining, Metallurgy and War -- Spiritual and Allegorical Alchemy and Chemistry -- Medicines, Purges, and Ointments -- An Emerging Science -- The Chemical Revolution -- A Young Democracy and a New Chemistry -- Chemistry Begins to Specialize, Systemize, and Help the Farm and the Factory -- Teaching Chemistry to the Masses -- Chemistry Enters the Modern Age -- Some Brief Chemical Amusements.

Chemistry has perhaps the most intricate, most fascinating, and certainly most romantic history of all the sciences. Arthur Greenberg's essays-delightful, learned, quirky, highly personal, and richly illustrated with contemporary drawings (many of great rarity and beauty)-provide a kaleidoscope of intellectual landscapes, bringing the experiments, the ideas, and the human figures of chemistry's past intensely alive

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