The molecularization of the world picture, or the rise of the Universum Arausiacum
Publisher: Groningen University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Groningen, Netherlands
Language: eng
Format: Paperback; Hardcover
Number of pages: 1010
Table of contents: title: Volume I; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Chapter I          Atomism: Antiquity, Middle-Ages, Renaissance; title: Chapter II         The first molecular theory: Isaac Beeckman (1620); title: Chapter III        The rise of molecularism (XVIIth - XVIIIth century); title: Chapter IV        Physics in the XIXth century; title: Chapter V         Chemistry in the XIXth century; title: Chapter VI        Biology and Medicine in the XIXth century; title: Chapter VII       Crystallography and Mineralogy in the XIXth century; title: Volume II; title: Chapter VIII      The rise of the Système International; molecules (atoms) as gauges; title: Chapter IX         The molecular sciences in the XXth century; title: Chapter X          Epilogue. The molecularization in a bird's-eye view; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index of names; title: Index of subjects; title: Honorary Committee