Tools and modes of representation in the laboratory sciences
By: edited by Ursula Klein.
Contributors: Klein, Ursula.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 222
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Chemistry -- Notation -- History -- 19th century.; Chemistry -- Notation -- History -- 20th century.; Chemical structure -- History -- 19th century.; Chemical structure -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chemical atomism and the evolution of chemical theory in the nineteenth century / Alan J. Rocke; title: The creative power of paper tools in early nineteenth-century chemistry / Ursula Klein; title: An early history of Alexander Crum Brown's graphical formulas / Christopher Ritter; title: Conventionalities in formula writing / Pierre Laszlo; title: Paper tools and fictional worlds: prediction, synthesis and auxiliary hypotheses in chemistry / Peter J. Ramberg; title: Aspects of paper tools in the industrial-academic context: constitutions and structures of aniline dyes, 1860-1880 / Carsten Reinhardt and Anthony S. Travis; title: Molecular models and the articulation of structural constraints in chemistry / Eri Francoeur; title: Paper tools and molecular architecture in the chemistry of Linus Pauling / Mary Jo Nye; title: Graphic representations of the periodic system of chemical elements / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent; title: The periodic table: the ultimate paper tool in chemistry / Eiri Scerri; title: A principle written in diagrams: The Aufbau principle for molecules and its visual representation, 1927-1932 / Buhm Soon Park; title: Fedoroff's translation of McClintock: the uses of chemistry in the reorganization of genetics / Emily Grosholz; title: Mathematics, representation, and molecular structure / Robin Findlay Hendry; title: Affinity, additivity and the reification of the bond / Stephen J. Weininger.