The molecularization of the world picture, or the rise of the Universum Arausiacum
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: Groningen University Press
Published: 2022
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 1028
ISBN-13: 9789083223100
Description: This second edition is a corrected and updated version of the first one of 2009 with important news on Planck's constant (and the calculations in the background) and a démasqué of Einstein's calculations of 1911 and 1915 leading to General Relativity.
Table of contents: label: Volume I; label: Contents
title: v; label: Preface
title: xi; label: Introduction
title: xxxix-lxiv; label: Chapter I
title: Atomism; Antiquity, Middle-Ages, Renaissance
pagenum: 1; label: 1.1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1.2
title: Leucippus and Democritus; Archimedes
pagenum: 2; label: 1.3
title: Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)
pagenum: 8; label: 1.4
title: Epicurus' heirs: Philodemus, Lucretius, and Diogenes
pagenum: 13; label: 1.5
title: Patristics and High Scholasticism
pagenum: 23; label: 1.6
title: Girolamo Fracastoro: contagia as disease vectors
pagenum: 26; label: 1.7
title: Atomism in the tradition
pagenum: 29; label: Chapter II
title: The first molecular theory: Isaac Beeckman (1620)
pagenum: 33; label: 2.1
title: Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637)
pagenum: 33; label: 2.2
title: Homogenea physica as molecules
pagenum: 40; label: 2.3
title: Mathematics and physics in a discrete world; the law of free fall
pagenum: 51; label: 2.4
title: Physical homogenea as substantial individuals
pagenum: 57; label: Chapter III
title: The rise of molecularism (XVIIth-XVIIIth century)
pagenum: 61; label: 3.1
title: Substantial individuals in the XVIIth century; Descartes and Huygens
pagenum: 61; label: 3.2
title: Physics: Newton, Van Musschenbroek, Laplace
pagenum: 66; label: 3.3
title: Chemistry: Stahl and Lavoisier
pagenum: 79; label: 3.4
title: Biology: Van Leeuwenhoek, Buffon, Dutrochet
pagenum: 89; label: 3.5
title: Close: crystallography
pagenum: 102; label: Chapter IV
title: Physics in the XIXth century
pagenum: 109; label: 4.1
title: The gaseous state; thermometry, pyrometry, calorimetry
pagenum: 109; label: 4.2
title: Gay-Lussac and Dalton; new laws
pagenum: 115; label: 4.3
title: The theory of heat, from Carnot to Clausius
pagenum: 125; label: 4.4
title: The kinetic theory of gases; Clausius and Buys Ballot
pagenum: 131; label: 4.5
title: The equation of state according to Van der Waals
pagenum: 138; label: 4.6
title: Statistical mechanics and quantum physics: Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Planck
pagenum: 152; label: 4.7
title: Molecules quantitatively: Loschmidt, Rutherford, and Boltwood. Loschmidt's number
pagenum: 170; label: 4.8
title: Jean Perrin: grains as molecules. Avogadro's number
pagenum: 175; label: 4.9
title: Physics and philosophy; molecularism and positivism
pagenum: 180; label: 4.10
title: Molecular physics 1800-1900; Maxwell, Lorentz, Einstein; Gibbs
pagenum: 190; label: Chapter V
title: Chemistry in the XIXth century
pagenum: 201; label: 5.1
title: Solutions, mixtures, and compounds; combining laws
pagenum: 201; label: 5.2
title: Dalton and Gay-Lussac; weight versus volume laws. Avogadro
pagenum: 206; label: 5.3
title: Molecular electrochemical dualism; Berzelius
pagenum: 212; label: 5.4
title: Relative atomic weights and/or equivalents; lacking coherence
pagenum: 222; label: 5.5
title: From radicals to types; (equi)valence; Gerhardt, Kekulé
pagenum: 226; label: 5.6
title: Physical stoichiometry; structure and additivity. Kopp
pagenum: 244; label: 5.7
title: Chemistry as stereochemistry: Kekulé, Le Bel, Van 't Hoff, Werner
pagenum: 253; label: 5.8
title: Tautomerism and desmotropy; Laar and Baeyer
pagenum: 266; label: 5.9
title: Molecular chemistry 1800-1900; Karlsruhe 1860
pagenum: 278; label: Chapter VI
title: Biology and medicine in the XIXth century
pagenum: 297; label: 6.1
title: The living organism and its parts; the emancipation of biology
pagenum: 297; label: 6.2
title: Organic molecules and cells; Dutrochet, Schleiden, Schwann
pagenum: 307; label: 6.3
title: From physiology to pathology; Virchow
pagenum: 316; label: 6.4
title: Organisms: uni- or pluricellular
pagenum: 326; label: 6.4.1
title: The classification of living beings
pagenum: 327; label: 6.4.2
title: Pasteur, Koch, Beijerinck; microbes, bacteria, viruses
pagenum: 330; label: 6.5
title: Growth, reproduction, and heridity; from Mohl to Morgan
pagenum: 347; label: 6.6.
title: Molecular reign: Brown-Séquard, Eijkman, Ehrlich
pagenum: 365; label: 6.7
title: The nature of life, 1800-1915; biological stoichiometry
pagenum: 377; label: Chapter VII
title: Crystallography and mineralogy in the XIXth century
pagenum: 391; label: 7.1
title: The concept of 'individual' in natural history; mathematizations
pagenum: 391; label: 7.2
title: Mitscherlich: isomorphism and polymorphism
pagenum: 398; label: 7.3
title: The concept of 'symmetry'; Haüy and Weiss
pagenum: 407; label: 7.3.1
title: The French school
pagenum: 408; label: 7.3.2
title: The German school
pagenum: 425; label: 7.4
title: Group theory and symmetry; from Jordan to Schoenflies
pagenum: 440; label: 7.5
title: The status of points; molecules and/or atoms
pagenum: 445; label: 7.6
title: Röntgen's radiation and the breakthrough of lattice theory; Laue et al., Bragg and Bragg
pagenum: 456; label: 7.7
title: Molecular lattices: the rule becomes the exception
pagenum: 469; label: Volume II; label: Contents
title: v; label: Chapter VIII
title: The rise of the Système international; molecules (atoms) as gauges
pagenum: 481; label: 8.1
title: Particles: number, dimensions, weight
pagenum: 481; label: 8.2
title: Units: from Stevin and Snellius to Delambre and Méchain
pagenum: 488; label: 8.3
title: The Convention du mètre (1875-1900) and the Conférences générales [..]
pagenum: 497; label: 8.4
title: From CGS (1873) to SI (1960); Landolt-Börnstein and the Handbook [..]
pagenum: 512; label: 8.5
title: From grammolecule to mole; Ostwald, Avogadro, and Loschmidt
pagenum: 521; label: 8.6
title: Avogadro's number and the kilogram as unit mass; Si and its metrological potentials
pagenum: 528; label: 8.7
title: Units: past and present. Atomic and molecular measures
pagenum: 537; label: Chapter IX
title: The molecular sciences in the XXth century
pagenum: 541; label: 9.1
title: The XXth century: a first impression
pagenum: 541; label: 9.2
title: Physics and chemistry; 1896-1925
pagenum: 548; label: 9.2.1
title: The atom; Thomson, Curie-Skłodowska, Rutherford
pagenum: 549; label: 9.2.2
title: Atoms and molecules; Bohr, Lewis
pagenum: 569; label: 9.2.3
title: Molekularstrahlen; palpable statistics; Stern
pagenum: 582; label: 9.3
title: Molecular physics since 1925
pagenum: 587; label: 9.4
title: Molecular chemistry since 1925
pagenum: 611; label: 9.5
title: Biology and medicine; 1915-1940
pagenum: 644; label: 9.6
title: The life sciences since 1940
pagenum: 668; label: 9.7
title: Close; crystallography as a bridge
pagenum: 697; label: Chapter X
title: Epilogue. The molecularization in a bird's-eye view
pagenum: 707; label: 10.1
title: Other markers, other perspectives
pagenum: 707; label: 10.2
title: Historiography: variations upon a theme
pagenum: 722; label: 10.3
title: The Universum Arausiacum
pagenum: 736; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 737; label: Primary sources
pagenum: 737; label: Secondary sources
pagenum: 771; label: Index of names
pagenum: 801; label: Index of subjects
pagenum: 843; label: Honorary Committee
pagenum: 963-964