From alchemy to chemistry in picture and story / Arthur Greenberg.
Material type: TextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2007.Description: xxiii, 637 pages [24] pages illustrations (some colors) ; 29 cmISBN:- 9780471751540
- 0471751545
- 540.9
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Colección general | Biblioteca Yachay Tech | 540.9 G7985f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 1 | Available | 002270 | |||
Colección general | Biblioteca Yachay Tech | 540.9 G7985f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 2 | Available | 002271 | |||
Colección general | Biblioteca Yachay Tech | 540.9 G7985f 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 3 | Available | 002272 |
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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