Chemical Lectures Of H T Scheffer

Author : Torbern Bergman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401124942

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Chemical Lectures of H.T. Scheffer by Torbern Bergman Pdf

Torbern Bergman was one of the greatest chemists of the 18th century. He edited this collection of lectures in chemistry by H.T. Scheffer and published it in 1775. It was probably the first book designed to be used as a textbook for university classes in chemistry. Bergman presented the first of his successively improved Tables of Elective Attractions in this book, a table of the chemical elements which was one of the earliest attempts to present all the chemical elements and their properties in a single table. This table preceded the modern periodic table of the elements by nearly a century. It is of basis of this table that Bergman is considered to be the father of physical chemistry. One of the many discoveries described in this book is Scheffer's `Pelican Experiment'. which disproved the transmutation of elements, and preceded by two decades the identical experiment carried out by Antoine Lavoisier. This book will be of interest to historians of science and chemists in particular. Scientists in general and educators will also be interested to read this book. It can be used as additional reading in history courses.

Author : Anders Lennartson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030491949

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Bergman by Anders Lennartson Pdf

This book tells the story of two of the most important figures in the history of chemistry. Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) was the first to prepare oxygen and realise that air is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen; he also discovered many important organic and inorganic substances. His fellow chemist and good friend, Torbern Bergman (1735–1784), was one of the pioneers in analytical and physical chemistry. In this carefully researched biography, the author, Anders Lennartson, explains the chemistry of Scheele and Bergman while putting their discoveries in the context of other 18th-century chemistry. Much of the information contained in this work is available in English for the first time.

Author : Peter Wothers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Chemical elements
ISBN : 9780199652723

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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf by Peter Wothers Pdf

How did the elements get their names? The origins of californium may be obvious, but what about oxygen? Investigating their origins takes Peter Wothers deep into history. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, he brings to light the astonishing, the unusual, and the downright weird origins behind the element names we take for granted.

Author : Ernst Homburg,Anthony S. Travis,Harm G. Schröter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792348893

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The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850–1914 by Ernst Homburg,Anthony S. Travis,Harm G. Schröter Pdf

Europe is the cradle of the modem international chemical industry. From the middle of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of World War I, the European chemical industry influenced not only the production and control of science and technology, but also made significant contributions towards economic development, as well as bringing about profound changes in working and living enviromnents. It is a highly complex heritage, both rich and threatening, that calls for close scrutinity. Fortunately, a unique opportunity to explore the historical development of the European chemical industry from a variety of novel standpoints, was made possible during 1993 as part of the European Science Foundation (ESF) programme called 'The Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939.' This process of exploration has taken place through three workshops, each dealing with different time periods. The workshop concerned with the period 1850-1914, which corresponds roughly to the so-called Second Industrial Revolution, was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, on 23-25 March 1995. This volume is the outcome of that workshop. The other workshops dealing with European chemical industry were held in Liege in 1994, covering the First Industrial Revolution period, 1789-1850, and Strasbourg in 1996, covering the period between the two World Wars.

Author : John E. Lesch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401593779

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The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century by John E. Lesch Pdf

In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The German chemical industry has been a major site for the development and application of the science-based technologies that gave rise to these products, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, and competitor in the international chemical industry. This volume explores the German chemical industry's scientific and technological dimension, its international connections, and its development after 1945. The authors relate scientific and technological change in the industry to evolving German political and economic circumstances, including two world wars, the rise and fall of National Socialism, the post-war division of Germany, and the emergence of a global economy. This book will be of interest to historians of modern Germany, to historians of science and technology, and to business and economic historians.

Author : Mi Gyung Kim
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 026225784X

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Affinity, That Elusive Dream by Mi Gyung Kim Pdf

In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to its proper place in historiography and in Enlightenment public culture. The Chemical Revolution is usually associated with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who introduced a modern nomenclature and a definitive text. Kim argues that chemical affinity was erased from historical memory by Lavoisier's omission of it from his textbook. She examines the work of many less famous French chemists (including physicians, apothecaries, metallurgists, philosophical chemists, and industrial chemists) to explore the institutional context of chemical instruction and research, the social stratification that shaped theoretical discourse, and the crucial shifts in analytic methods. Apothecaries and metallurgists, she shows, shaped the main theory domains through their innovative approach to analysis. Academicians and philosophical chemists brought about two transformative theoretical moments through their efforts to create a rational discourse of chemistry in tune with the reigning natural philosophy. The topics discussed include the corpuscular (Cartesian) model in French chemistry in the early 1700s, the stabilization of the theory domains of composition and affinity, the reconstruction of French theoretical discourse in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Newtonian languages that plagued the domain of affinity just before the Chemical Revolution, Guyton de Morveau's program of affinity chemistry, Lavoisier's reconstruction of the theory domains of chemistry, and Berthollet's path as an affinity chemist.

Author : Anders Lundgren,Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher : Science History Publications
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0881352748

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Communicating Chemistry by Anders Lundgren,Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Pdf

Historians and philosophers of science offer 18 papers from a European Science Foundation workshop held in Uppsala, Sweden, in February 1996, explore such questions as how textbooks differ from other forms of chemical literature, under what conditions they become established as a genre, whether they develop a specific rhetoric, how their audiences help shape the profile of chemistry, translations, and other topics. Only names are indexed.

Author : Tore Frangsmyr,J. L. Heilbron,Robin E. Rider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520321595

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The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century by Tore Frangsmyr,J. L. Heilbron,Robin E. Rider Pdf

Author : J. Erik Jorpes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520340138

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Jac. Berzelius by J. Erik Jorpes Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Dr. Lassar-Cohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102951431

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Chemistry in Daily Life by Dr. Lassar-Cohn Pdf

Author : William A. Cole
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040914033

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Chemical Literature, 1700-1860 by William A. Cole Pdf

Author : F.B. Howard - White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003833864

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Nickel by F.B. Howard - White Pdf

First published in 1963, Nickel presents a readable account of Nickel’s development from early times to the present day. Weapons and implements containing a small proportion of nickel have been found on the 3500-year-old sites of Ur and Kish in Sumeria; while in 1962 the first United States manned space capsule to orbit the earth made use of nickel alloys to withstand the effects of exposure to elevated temperature, dynamic and acoustical stress, and fatigue. Nickel was identified as an element in the 18th century and the steps leading up to this are vividly described. New information on the origin of Kupfer Nickel, regarded with such disdain by early Saxon miners, is revealed as a result of a visit made by the author to the Freiburg Bergakademie in Eastern Germany. Nickeliferous occurrences in Europe, the South Pacific and North America are described; charts and flowsheets illustrate progress in production and methods of extracting this matter from its complex compounds. There are incidental portraits of the men who built up the industry. A survey of the applications of nickel today includes references to nickel silver, electroplating, the steel field, and it’s hundred and one uses in industry, architecture and the home. This account of the development of nickel, combining scientific and economic fact with the quirks of human history makes informative and imaginative reading.

Author : Carl G. Liungman
Publisher : Ionfox AB
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Semiotics
ISBN : 9789197270502

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Symbols by Carl G. Liungman Pdf

Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.

Author : Carl G. Liungman
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9051991975

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Thought Signs by Carl G. Liungman Pdf

The book is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of Western ideograms ever published, unique in its search systems, that allows the reader to locate a symbol by defining just four of its visual characteristics. It is about our graphic cultural heritage as expressed in subway graffiti, fighter jets' signs and emergency exit symbols. It contains 2,300 symbols, 1,600 articles and streamlined reference functions. Ideogram scarved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men 25,000 years ago, put on modern household appliances by their manufacturers or sprayed on walls by political activists, are all presented in dictionary form for easy reference. Symbols cover current designs used in advertising, logotyping, architecture, design, decoration, religion, politics and astrology.

Author : J. A. Schufle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4456057

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Torbern Bergman by J. A. Schufle Pdf