Making molecularism II. Selected papers II. Abstracts
Publisher: Groningen University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Groningen
Language: eng
Format: Paperback (and hardcover)
Number of pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9789081442879
Description: This second volume of Making molecularism extends the line set out in volume one. It features the text of another 35 papers and provides some 150 abstracts of papers read in the period 1985-2013. The discovery of the details of Planck's calculation of the constant that came to be called after him is of fundamental importance: it is the first specimen of a 'calculatio crucis', that is, a calculation that straightforwardly demonstrates the correctness of the results integrated in the new narrative-historiography of the atomic and molecular theory as embodied in my successive books.
Table of contents: title: v
label: Contents; title: xiii-liii; i.a. on the abuse of the work of Planck and Einstein
label: Preface; pagenum: 1
title: Bernard Nieuwentijt: politician and virtuoso
label: 1; pagenum: 1
title: Introduction
label: 1.1; pagenum: 1
title: From natural philosophy to natural science: 1650-1750
label: 1.2; pagenum: 4
title: At the service of religion
label: 1.3; pagenum: 7
title: The religious philosopher
label: 1.4; pagenum: 9
title: Baruch de Spinoza
label: 1.5; pagenum: 13
title: Nieuwentijt's message
label: 1.6; pagenum: 15
title: Islamic-Arabic contributions to mathematics and astronomy
label: 2; pagenum: 15
title: Introduction; the rise and fall of Baghdad
label: 2.1; pagenum: 17
title: Muhammad and the Islam
label: 2.2; pagenum: 21
title: Baghdad: emulation of the Ancients; translations
label: 2.3; pagenum: 23
title: New centers: Córdoba, Cairo
label: 2.4; pagenum: 24
title: Old and new mathematics: al-Khwārizmī and ibn-al-Haytham
label: 2.5; pagenum: 29
title: Old and new astronomy: al-Battānī, al-Tusī
label: 2.6; pagenum: 33
title: To print or not to print ..; Müteferrika, 1726
label: 2.7; pagenum: 38
title: Conclusions
label: 2.8; pagenum: 41
title: Molecularism and positivism
label: 3; pagenum: 41
title: Introduction
label: 3.1; pagenum: 42
title: Molecularism in Comte's Cours de philosophie positive
label: 3.2; pagenum: 44
title: Conclusion
label: 3.3; pagenum: 47
title: Molecularism and atomism: old and new in perspective
label: 4; pagenum: 47
title: Introduction
label: 4.1; pagenum: 47
title: From molecular theory to molecularism
label: 4.2; pagenum: 49
title: Atomism, molecular theory, and molecularism
label: 4.3; pagenum: 51
title: Terminological problems; conclusion
label: 4.4; pagenum: 53
title: The end of molecularism as a 'Theory of Everything'
label: 5; pagenum: 53
title: Introduction
label: 5.1; pagenum: 55
title: Röntgen rays and crystal structure
label: 5.2; pagenum: 57
title: Conclusion: molecularism chess-mate as 'Theory of Everything'
label: 5.3; pagenum: 59
title: Molecularism: from the market to the agora. And back ?
label: 6; pagenum: 59
title: Introduction
label: 6.1; pagenum: 60
title: From the market to the agora
label: 6.2; pagenum: 62
title: From the agora to the market ?!
label: 6.3; pagenum: 63
title: Conclusions
label: 6.4; pagenum: 65
title: Natural philosophy according to Andrew Van Melsen (1912-1994)
label: 7; pagenum: 65
title: Introduction
label: 7.1; pagenum: 69
title: 'Natural philosophy' and 'Philosophy of the exact sciences'
label: 7.2; pagenum: 73
title: The species-individual structure as ontology
label: 7.3; pagenum: 75
title: Conclusion
label: 7.4; pagenum: 77
title: Chemistry and linguistics with Robert Boyle
label: 8; pagenum: 77
title: Introduction
label: 8.1; pagenum: 79
title: The corpuscular philosophy
label: 8.2; pagenum: 82
title: Boyle's concept of 'element'
label: 8.3; pagenum: 86
title: The relative complexity of bodies; linguistic help
label: 8.4; pagenum: 90
title: Scaliger: De causis linguae latinae (1540)
label: 8.5; pagenum: 91
title: The 'philosophy' of chemistry
label: 9; pagenum: 95
title: Book review: W. Strube, Der historische Weg der Chemie. [..] (1976)
label: 10; pagenum: 99
title: Book review: J. Hudson, The history of chemistry (1992)
label: 11; pagenum: 101
title: Book review: C. Schorlemmer, Die Ursprung und Entwicklung der organischen Chemie (1889/1979)
label: 12; pagenum: 105
title: Book review: J. P. Poirier, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (1993) and B. Bensaude-Vincent, Lavoisier. Mémoires d'une révolution (1993)
label: 13; pagenum: 109
title: The fourth centenary of the birth of Isaac Beeckman, the first molecular theorist
label: 14; pagenum: 119
title: The first 'molecular' theory (1620): Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637)
label: 15; pagenum: 119
title: Introduction
label: 15.1; pagenum: 121
title: Beeckman's 'homogenea physica' as substantial individuals
label: 15.2; pagenum: 132
title: Beeckman in historical perspective: the rise of molecularism
label: 15.3; pagenum: 127
title: 'Organic chemistry' around 1600: molecules - avant la lettre - as 'substantial individuals' with Beeckman (1620) and Basson (1621)
label: 16; pagenum: 127
title: Introduction
label: 16.1; pagenum: 128
title: Complexity and chemical skills
label: 16.2; pagenum: 128
title: Organic chemistry as carbon chemistry
label: 16.3; pagenum: 129
title: Beeckman and Basson's 'organic' inspiration
label: 16.4; pagenum: 131
title: Conclusions
label: 16.5; pagenum: 133
title: Atoms and molecules in a historical perspective
label: 17; pagenum: 133
title: Introduction
label: 17.1; pagenum: 134
title: Classical Antiquity: the first atomic theories
label: 17.2; pagenum: 136
title: The first 'molecular' theory: Isaac Beeckman, 1620
label: 17.3; pagenum: 138
title: From Stahl to Lavoisier
label: 17.4; pagenum: 141
title: From Dalton to Van 't Hoff; benzene
label: 17.5; pagenum: 148
title: Maxwell and Boltzmann
label: 17.6; pagenum: 151
title: Lavoisier: grandeur and misery
label: 18; pagenum: 151
title: Introduction
label: 18.1; pagenum: 152
title: Stahl's 'phlogiston'-theory
label: 18.2; pagenum: 153
title: Lavoisier: investigating the composition of the air
label: 18.3; pagenum: 154
title: Oxygen as acid principle
label: 18.4; pagenum: 155
title: Analysis confirmed by synthesis
label: 18.5; pagenum: 158
title: The new chemistry
label: 18.6; pagenum: 159
title: Marie Curie-Skłodowska: brilliant analytical chemistry
label: 19; pagenum: 159
title: Introduction
label: 19.1; pagenum: 159
title: A new radiation
label: 19.2; pagenum: 160
title: Polonium: what's in a name ?
label: 19.3; pagenum: 163
title: Radioactivity as such
label: 19.4; pagenum: 163
title: Another new element
label: 19.5; pagenum: 164
title: The Nobel Prize
label: 19.6; pagenum: 165
title: The valence of atoms
label: 20; pagenum: 165
title: Introduction
label: 20.1; pagenum: 166
title: Berzelius' radicals
label: 20.2; pagenum: 167
title: 'Rational' formulae
label: 20.3; pagenum: 169
title: Double decompostions
label: 20.4; pagenum: 169
title: Ether; 'common aether'
label: 20.5; pagenum: 170
title: Marsh gas
label: 20.6; pagenum: 173
title: The concept of 'structure' in the history of chemistry
label: 21; pagenum: 173
title: Introduction
label: 21.1; pagenum: 174
title: The concept of 'structure' anno 1990; its roots; Butlerov 1861
label: 21.2; pagenum: 175
title: The molecular theory 1620-1861
label: 21.3; pagenum: 181
title: Butlerov and his 'structure'-theory (1861); Van 't Hoff, Le Bel
label: 21.4; pagenum: 185
title: Doubts and paradoxes: tautomerism, desmotropy
label: 21.5; pagenum: 188
title: The electron theory
label: 21.6; pagenum: 189
title: Tautomerism and the structure of benzene
label: 21.7; title: Resonanc versus mesomerism; VB versus MO 192
label: 21.8; pagenum: 195
title: Marxist-Leninists versus bourgeois; Dewar, MO
label: 21.9; pagenum: 199
title: Conclusion
label: 21.10; pagenum: 203
title: Conformational analysis in a historical perspective; a Dutch contribution
label: 22; pagenum: 203
title: Introduction
label: 22.1; pagenum: 205
title: Cycloalkanes and their structure; Sachse, Mohr
label: 22.2; pagenum: 207
title: The Delft School of Böeseken
label: 22.3; pagenum: 209
title: Later developments
label: 22.4; pagenum: 213
title: Chemical calculations: the emerging role of the mole (Ostwald, Holleman)
label: 23; pagenum: 213
title: Calculations up to 1792; Lavoisier
label: 23.1; pagenum: 216
title: Richter's Stoichyometrie (1792)
label: 23.2; pagenum: 221
title: Proust, Dalton, Gay-Lussac, and Avogadro
label: 23.3; pagenum: 224
title: Her mann Kopp: physical stoechiometry; additivity
label: 23.4; pagenum: 227
title: The rise of thermochemistry; from Lavoisier to Thomsen
label: 23.5; pagenum: 231
title: The introduction of the 'mole'; Ostwald and Holleman
label: 23.6; pagenum: 234
title: The Système international; canonizing the 'mole' (1971)
label: 23.7; pagenum: 235
title: Chemical nomenclature: from Lavoisier et al. to Verkade
label: 24; pagenum: 235
title: Introduction
label: 24.1; pagenum: 238
title: Stahl, Lavoisier; Guyton de Morveau
label: 24.2; pagenum: 242
title: The concept of 'individual' in chemistry
label: 24.3; pagenum: 244
title: Pieter Eduard Verkade
label: 24.4; pagenum: 247
title: Isaac Beeckman: substantial and biological individuals
label: 25; pagenum: 255
title: Introduction
label: 25.1; pagenum: 248
title: Substantial and biological individuals
label: 25.2; pagenum: 249
title: Beeckman on living beings
label: 25.3; pagenum: 249
title: Beeckman on substances
label: 25.4; pagenum: 255
title: Medical aspects of the 'molecular' theory of Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637)
label: 26; pagenum: 255
title: Introduction
label: 26.1; pagenum: 256
title: Isaac Beeckman
label: 26.2; pagenum: 257
title: Galen and Lucretius; atoms and molecules
label: 26.3; pagenum: 262
title: Tissues and drugs as aggregates of 'homogenea'
label: 26.4; pagenum: 263
title: New light on the origin of the cellular theory: Buffon as a precursor of Dutrochet
label: 27; pagenum: 263
title: Introduction
label: 27.1; pagenum: 264
title: Partial regeneration
label: 27.2; pagenum: 265
title: Buffon's 'organic molecules'
label: 27.3; pagenum: 267
title: Tissues, cells, and molecules; Dutrochet
label: 27.4; pagenum: 269
title: Molecules, cells, and fibers
label: 27.5; pagenum: 271
title: The development of cellular theory 1824-1933; physiology
label: 28; pagenum: 271
title: Introduction; flora and fauna; taxonomy
label: 28.1; pagenum: 272
title: Tissular growth
label: 28.2; pagenum: 274
title: Reproduction and growth
label: 28.3; pagenum: 276
title: The mechanism of heredity
label: 28.4; pagenum: 279
title: The development of cellular theory 1824-1933; pathology
label: 29; pagenum: 279
title: Introduction; the composition of blood
label: 29.1; pagenum: 280
title: Cellular pathology
label: 29.2; pagenum: 284
title: Pasteur and Koch; microbes and bacteria
label: 29.3; pagenum: 284
title: Filterable and non-filterable contagia
label: 29.4; pagenum: 287
title: Molecular biology: a historical perspective
label: 30; pagenum: 287
title: Introduction; the cell as such
label: 30.1; pagenum: 288
title: Cellular division; 'morphologival continuity'
label: 30.2; pagenum: 288
title: Darwin and De Vries; gemmulae and and pagenes
label: 30.3; pagenum: 291
title: Sachs and Naegeli: molecular botany
label: 30.4; pagenum: 292
title: Mendel, De Vries, Morgan; chromosomes and genes
label: 30.5; pagenum: 293
title: Disease germs: filterable or not. Microbes, viruses, and phages
label: 30.6; pagenum: 296
title: Watson and Crick; the double helix
label: 30.7; pagenum: 303
title: Conclusions
label: 30.8; pagenum: 305
title: Newton's theory of matter
label: 31; pagenum: 305
title: Introduction
label: 31.1; pagenum: 307
title: The 'nutshell'-theory; Thackray, Dobbs, and Figala
label: 31.2; pagenum: 314
title: Newton versus Stahl
label: 31.2; pagenum: 318
title: Newton, Stahl, Dalton and modern molecular theory
label: 31.3; pagenum: 325
title: Conclusions
label: 31.4; pagenum: 327
title: Josef Loschmidt and the reality of molecules
label: 32; pagenum: 327
title: Introduction
label: 32.1; pagenum: 328
title: Josef Loschmidt on the diameter of air molecules
label: 32.2; pagenum: 333
title: Conclusions
label: 32.3; pagenum: 335
title: Thermodynamics, molecularism, and positivism
label: 33; pagenum: 335
title: Introduction
label: 33.1; pagenum: 336
title: Molecularism in the early XIXth century
label: 33.2; pagenum: 339
title: Emerging thermodynamics
label: 33.3; pagenum: 341
title: Auguste Comte: positivism and molecularism
label: 33.4; pagenum: 343
title: Statistics, molecularism, and thermodynamics
label: 33.5; pagenum: 347
title: Particle physics in a historical perspective
label: 34; pagenum: 351
title: Planck's constant: a short-cut
label: 35; title: The calculatio crucis of Planck, 351; Convolutions about Planck's constant, 357; Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 357; Contra Herman De Lang: 'Planck, Einstein and their quanta', 359; Correspondence, 360; Annalen der Physik (2016), 368; Correspondence, 370; Withdrawal of 'Planck's constant: a short-cut', 386; A threatening answer from the Editor-in-Chief, 386; Note added in print, 386; pagenum: 387
title: Abstracts
label: 36; title: 1985 (388); 1990 (400); 1995 (463); 2000 (484); 2005 (519) 2010 (534); pagenum: 541-566
title: Index of names