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Atoms in Chemistry - From Daltons Predecessors To Complex Atoms And Beyond 1044 (Hardcover)
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Atoms in Chemistry - From Daltons Predecessors To Complex Atoms And Beyond 1044 (Hardcover)
Series: ACS Symposium Series, 1044
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Dalton's theory of the atom is generally considered to be what made
the atom a scientifically fruitful concept in chemistry. To be
sure, by Dalton's time the atom had already had a two-millenium
history as a philosophical idea, and corpuscular thought had long
been viable in natural philosophy (that is, in what we would today
call physics).
Atoms in Chemistry will examine episodes in the evolution of the
concept of the atom, particularly in chemistry, from Dalton's day
to our own. It begins with an overview of scientific atomic
theories from the 17th through 20th centuries that analyzes
corpuscular theories of matter proposed or entertained by natural
philosophers in the 17th century. Chapters will focus on
philosophical and religious conceptions of matter, 19th-century
organic structural theories, the debate surrounding the truth of
the atomic-molecular theory, and physical evidence accumulated in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries that suggested that atoms
were actually real, even if they were not exactly as Dalton
envisioned them. The final chapter of this book takes the reader
beyond the atom itself to some of the places associated with the
history of scientific atomism. As a whole, this volume will serve
as a passport to important episodes from the more than 200-year
history of atoms in chemistry.
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