Image and reality
Subtitle: Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination
By: Alan J. Rocke.
Series: Synthesis; Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226723327
Subjects: Kekulé, August, -- 1829-1896; Kopp, Hermann, -- 1817-1892; Chemistry, Organic -- History -- 19th century; Science -- Methodology -- History; Imagination; Visualization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ether/or; title: Springtime for chemistry?; title: The education of Alexander Williamson; title: Interpreting chemical atoms; title: Williamson and Graham; title: Grasping the ether; title: The experimental dissection of organic molecules; title: Excursus: isolated radicals?; title: The spread of Williamsonian theory; title: The architect of molecules; title: The education of August Kekulé; title: Kekulé in London; title: Excursus: the road to Valence; title: Molecular dreams; title: Building an unseen structure; title: The start of a teaching career; title: Early work in Heidelberg; title: The theory of polyatomic radicals; title: The theory of atomicity of the elements; title: Molecular epistemology; title: A barometer of the science; title: Writing a textbook; title: Formulas, models, reality; title: Excursus: a case in point; title: Erlenmeyer and Kekulé; title: Constant or variable atomicity?; title: The heuristics of molecular representation; title: Couper; title: Loschmidt; title: Butlerov; title: Crum Brown; title: Excursus: heurism in action; title: The fate of the new graphic formulas; title: Molecules as metaphors; title: Natural types; title: Absolute formulas; title: Excursus: looking through the stereoscope; title: Molecular democracy or autocracy?; title: The revenge of Jupiter's children; title: Aromatic apparitions; title: First approaches to the problem; title: Enter the hexagon; title: Benzene through the phenakistoscope; title: Excursus: ring around the rosie; title: Metachemistry?; title: Dimensional molecules; title: Early stereospatial speculations; title: The spiral staircase; title: The pyramid; title: Imagination in science: point/counterpoint; title: Chemists, physicists, and the microworld; title: Kopp's world; title: The making of a chemist-historian; title: In amongst the molecules; title: The response; title: The thirsty chemists; title: Kekulé's dreams; title: The festivities in Berlin; title: Kekulé's speech; title: The aftermath; title: The eureka experience and the unconscious mind; title: The scientific image-ination; title: Mental images and science; title: Mental images and history; title: Transdictive images in physics and in chemistry.