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 (and hardcover)
Number of pages: 1009
ISBN-13: 9789081442817
Table of contents: title: Volume I; title: v
label: Preface; title: xvii-xxxviii
label: Introduction; pagenum: 1
title: Atomism; Antiquity, Middle-Ages, Renaissance
label: 1; pagenum: 1
title: Introduction
label: 1.1; pagenum: 2
title: Leucippus and Democritus; Archimedes
label: 1.2; pagenum: 8
title: Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)
label: 1.3; pagenum: 13
title: Epicurus' heirs: Philodemus, Lucretius, and Diogenes
label: 1.4; pagenum: 23
title: Patristics and High Scholasticism
label: 1.5; pagenum: 26
title: Girolamo Fracastoro: 'contagia' as disease vectors
label: 1.6; pagenum: 29
title: Atomism in the tradition
label: 1.7; pagenum: 33
title: The first molecular theory: Isaac Beeckman (1620)
label: 2; pagenum: 33
title: Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637)
label: 2.1; pagenum: 40
title: 'Homogenea physica' as molecules
label: 2.2; pagenum: 51
title: Mathematics and physics in a 'discrete' world; the law of free fall
label: 2.3; pagenum: 57
title: Physical homogenea as 'substantial individuals'
label: 2.4; pagenum: 61
title: The rise of molecularism (XVIIth-XVIIth century)
label: 3; pagenum: 61
title: Substantial individuals in the XVIIth century
label: 3.1; pagenum: 66
title: Physics: Newton, Van Musschenbroek, Laplace
label: 3.2; pagenum: 79
title: Chemistry: Stahl and Lavoisier
label: 3.3; pagenum: 89
title: Biology: Van Leeuwenhoek, Buffon, Dutrochet
label: 3.4; pagenum: 102
title: Close; crystallography
label: 3.5; pagenum: 109
title: Physics in the XIXth century
label: 4; pagenum: 109
title: The gaseous state; thermometry, pyrometry, and calorimetry
label: 4.1; pagenum: 115
title: Gay-Lussac and Dalton; new laws
label: 4.2; pagenum: 125
title: The theory of heat, from Carnot to Clausius
label: 4.3; pagenum: 131
title: The kinetic theory of gases; Clausius and Buys Ballot
label: 4.4; pagenum: 138
title: The equation of state according to Van der Waals
label: 4.5; pagenum: 153
title: Statistical mechanics and quantum physics; Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Planck
label: 4.6; pagenum: 168
title: Molecules quantitatively: Loschmidt, Rutherford, and Boltwood; N-Loschmidt
label: 4.7; pagenum: 173
title: Jean Perrin: grains as molecules, N-Avogadro
label: 4.8; pagenum: 178
title: Physics and philosophy; molecularism and positivism
label: 4.9; pagenum: 188
title: Molecular physics 1800-1900; Maxwell, Lorentz, Einstein; Gibbs
label: 4.10; pagenum: 199
title: Chemistry in the XIXth century
label: 5; pagenum: 199
title: Solutions, mixtures, and compounds; combining laws
label: 5.1; pagenum: 204
title: Dalton and Gay-Lussac; weight versus volume laws. Avogadro
label: 5.2; pagenum: 210
title: Molecular electrochemical dualism; Berzelius
label: 5.3; pagenum: 220
title: Relative atomic weights and/or equivalents; lacking coherence
label: 5.4; pagenum: 225
title: From 'radicals' to 'types'; (equi)valence; Gerhardt, Kekulé
label: 5.5; pagenum: 243
title: Physical stoichiometry; structure and additivity. Kopp
label: 5.6; pagenum: 252
title: Chemistry as stereochemistry: Kekulé, Le Bel, Van 't Hoff, Werner
label: 5.7; pagenum: 265
title: Tautomerism or desmotropy; Laar and Baeyer
label: 5.8; pagenum: 277
title: Molecular chemistry 1800-1900; Karlsruhe 1860
label: 5.9; pagenum: 297
title: Biology and medicine in the XIXth century
label: 6; pagenum: 297
title: The living organism and its parts; the emancipation of biology
label: 6.1; pagenum: 307
title: Organic molecules and cells; Dutrochet, Schleiden, Schwann
label: 6.2; pagenum: 316
title: From physiology to pathology; Virchow
label: 6.3; pagenum: 326
title: The organism: uni- or pluricellular
label: 6.4; pagenum: 326
title: The classification of living beings
label: 6.4.1; pagenum: 330
title: Pasteur, Koch, Beijerinck; microbes, bacteria, viruses
label: 6.4.2; pagenum: 345
title: Growth, reproduction, and heredity; from Mohl to Morgan
label: 6.5; pagenum: 364
title: Molecular reign: Brown-Séquard, Eijkman, Ehrlich
label: 6.6; pagenum: 376
title: The nature of life, 1800-1915; biological 'stoichiometry'
label: 6.7; pagenum: 391
title: Crystallography and mineralogy in the XIXth century
label: 7; pagenum: 391
title: The concept of 'individual' in natural history; mathematizations
label: 7.1; pagenum: 398
title: Mitscherlich: isomorphism and polymorphism
label: 7.2; pagenum: 407
title: The concept of 'symmetry'; Haüy and Weiss
label: 7.3; pagenum: 441
title: Group theory and symmetry; from Jordan to Schoenflies
label: 7.4; pagenum: 445
title: The status of 'points'; molecules and/or atoms
label: 7.5; pagenum: 456
title: Röntgen's radiation and the breakthrough of lattice theory; Laue et al., Bragg and Bragg
label: 7.6; pagenum: 469
title: Molecular lattices: the rule becomes the exception
label: 7.7; title: Volume II; title: Contents i-x; pagenum: 481
title: The rise of the Système international; molecules (atoms) as gauges
label: 8; pagenum: 481
title: Particles: number, dimensions, weight
label: 8.1; pagenum: 488
title: Units: from Stevin and Snellius to Delambre and Méchain
label: 8.2; pagenum: 497
title: The 'Convention du mètre' (1875-1900) and the 'Conférences générales [..]'
label: 8.3; pagenum: 513
title: From CGS (1873) to SI (1960); Landolt-Börnstein and the Handbook [..]
label: 8.4; pagenum: 520
title: From 'grammolecule' to 'mole'; Ostwald, Avogadro, and Loschmidt
label: 8.5; pagenum: 527
title: N-Avogadro and the kilogram as unit mass; Silicon and its metrological potentials
label: 8.6; pagenum: 536
title: Units, past and present; atomic and molecular measures
label: 8.7; pagenum: 541
title: The molecular sciences in the XXth century
label: 9; pagenum: 541
title: The XXth century; a first impression
label: 9.1; pagenum: 548
title: Physics and chemistry; 1896-1925
label: 9.2; pagenum: 549
title: The atom; Thomson, Curie-Sklodowska, Rutherford
label: 9.2.1; pagenum: 569
title: Atoms and molecules; Bohr, Lewis
label: 9.2.2; pagenum: 583
title: 'Molekularstrahlen'; palpable statistics; Stern
label: 9.2.3; pagenum: 587
title: Molecular physics since 1925
label: 9.3; pagenum: 612
title: Molecular chemistry since 1925
label: 9.4; pagenum: 646
title: Biology and medicine; 1915-1940
label: 9.5; pagenum: 670
title: The life sciences since 1940
label: 9.6; pagenum: 699
title: Close; crystallography as a bridge
label: 9.7; pagenum: 709
title: Epilogue. The molecularization in a bird's eye view
label: 10; pagenum: 709
title: Other markers, other perspectives
label: 10.1; pagenum: 724
title: Historiography: variations upon a theme
label: 10.2; pagenum: 738
title: The 'Universum Arausiacum'
label: 10.3; pagenum: 739
title: Bibliography; pagenum: 739
label: Primary sources; pagenum: 772
label: Secondary sources; pagenum: 799
title: Acknowledgments; pagenum: 799
label: Experiments, general; pagenum: 801
label: Illustrations; pagenum: 802
label: Peter Debije and the Netherlands; pagenum: 805
title: Index of names; pagenum: 843
title: Index of subjects; pagenum: 961-962
title: Honorary Committee of European and American Scholars