The Evolution of Chemistry: A History of Its Ideas, Methods, and Materials

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Preface iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations ix
• Introduction 3
• Period I - The Emergence of Chemistry as a Science 11
• Chapter 1 - Survey of the Period from the Oldest Records to the Eighteenth Century 13
• Chapter 2 - From the Fourth Millennium B.C. to the Third Century A.D. 15
• Chapter 3 - From the Third Century to the Sixteenth 30
• Chapter 4 - From the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Third Quarter of the Eighteenth 43
• Chapter 5 - Phlogiston and Dephlogisticated Air 62
• Chapter 6 - Mines, Pharmacies, and Manufacturing Plants 75
• Period II - The Development of Chemical Systems 91
• Chapter 7 - Survey of the Period from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Late Nineteenth 93
• Chapter 8 - Principles and Elements 97
• Chapter 9 - Galvanism and Voltaism 116
• Chapter 10 - Atoms and Molecules 124
• Chapter 11 - Elements and Compounds 134
• Chapter 12 - Foundations of Organic Chemistry 146
• Chapter 13 - Natural and Artificial Organic Substances 173
• Chapter 14 - The Periodic System 189
• Chapter 15 - The Course of Chemical Change 194
• Chapter 16 - Physical and Chemical Energies 204
• Period III - Specialization and Industrialization 237
• Chapter 17 - Survey of the Period from the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century to Our Own Time 239
• Chapter 18 - Matter and Radiation 244
• Chapter 19 - Chemical Bond and Physical Form 265
• Chapter 20 - Inorganic Chemistry 278
• Chapter 21 - Organic Chemistry 288
• Chapter 22 - Biochemistry 310
• List of Periodicals Cited 329
• Index of Authors 333
• Index of Subjects 341

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