Creations of Fire
Subtitle: Chemistry’s Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age
By: by Cathy Cobb, Harold Goldwhite
Contributors: Goldwhite, Harold, author; SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781489927705
Subjects: Chemistry; Documentation and Information in Chemistry
Table of contents: title: I; title: 1. ca. 100,000–300 BCE: Prehistoric Chemist to Chemical Philosopher—The Seeds; title: 2. ca. 300 BCE–600 CE: Alexandria and Alchemy; title: 3. ca. 200 BCE–1000 CE: From Rome to Baghdad; title: 4. ca. 1000–1200: Alchemy Translates from East to West; title: 5. ca. 1300–1500: The Evolution of European Alchemy; title: 6. ca. 1600: Philosophers of Fire; title: 7. ca. 1700: The Search for System and Phlogiston; title: II; title: 8. ca. 1700: Révolution!; title: 9. ca. 1800–1848: Après Le Déluge; title: 10. ca. 1800–1848: The Professional Chemist; title: 11. ca. 1848–1914: Thermodynamics—The Heat of the Matter; title: 12. ca. 1830–1914: Organic Chemistry—Up from the Ooze; title: 13. ca. 1848–1914: Inorganic Elements and Ions—New Earths and Airs; title: 14. ca. 1848–1914: Analytical, Industrial, and Biochemistry—Creations of Coal; title: III; title: 15. ca. 1914–1950: Quantum Chemistry—The Belly of the Beast; title: 16. ca. 1914–1950: Polymers and Proteins: Links in the Chain; title: 17. ca. 1914–1950: New Materials and Methods—Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Grow; title: 18. ca. 1914–1950: Chemical Kinetics—Boom or Bust; title: 19. ca. 1914–1950: Radiochemistry—Dalton Dissected; title: 20. The Best Is Yet To Come; title: Endnotes; title: Annotated Bibliography.