MTU Library Catalogue

Mind and matter; man's changing concepts of the material world / Cecil J. Schneer.

By: Schneer, Cecil J, 1923-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: NY : Grove Press, 1970Description: xiv, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Chemistry -- HistoryDDC classification: 509
Contents:
From speech and fire to the age of iron and letters -- The idea of matter -- The middle passage: classical alchemy to medieval crafts -- The scientific renaissance -- Gases and the idea of elements -- The triumph of the antiphlogistians -- The laws of classical chemistry -- The development of organic chemistry -- Origins of electrochemistry -- The periodic law -- The idea of energy and the assault on materialism -- The new mechanism -- The revolt in physics and the chemical bond -- Crystallographic atomism -- The structure of the atom -- Corpora ad lectorem.

Bibliography: (pages 277-292) and index.

From speech and fire to the age of iron and letters -- The idea of matter -- The middle passage: classical alchemy to medieval crafts -- The scientific renaissance -- Gases and the idea of elements -- The triumph of the antiphlogistians -- The laws of classical chemistry -- The development of organic chemistry -- Origins of electrochemistry -- The periodic law -- The idea of energy and the assault on materialism -- The new mechanism -- The revolt in physics and the chemical bond -- Crystallographic atomism -- The structure of the atom -- Corpora ad lectorem.