Overview
- A light hearted, yet profound examination of the chemistry and physics in the nineteenth century
- Revealing tour of nineteenth century debates concerning chemical theory
- Richly annoted and equipped with an illuminating preface
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: History of Chemistry (BRIESFHISTCHEM)
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“Alan J. Rocke has brought back to vibrant life a fanciful little book that the nineteenth-century physical chemist and historian of chemistry Hermann Kopp privately printed in 1882 as a birthday gift for his close friend Robert Bunsen. … an excellent addition to the SpringerBriefs in History of Chemistry series, edited by Seth C. Rasmussen.” (Mary Jo Nye, ISIS, Vol. 106 (1), 2015)
“Rocke has now provided a full translation of Kopp’s book, with an extensive introduction and explanatory footnotes … . Rocke’s translation is a welcome reminder that we still have much to learn about chemists and chemistry in the nineteenth century, and we should be thankful that he has made Kopp’s fertile imagination more accessible to non-German-speaking readers.” (Peter J. Ramberg, Ambix, Vol. 60 (2), May, 2013)
“In From the Molecular World, Kopp gave a survey of much of the domain of chemical interests from the atomic-molecular viewpoint. … provides a very useful overview of the theoretical ‘state-of-the-art’ of chemistry in the early 1880s. … In our own age of bewilderingly rapid social, economic, scientific technological change, it is comforting to read and savor Kopps molecular fantasy.” (Seymour Mauskopf, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 52 (13), 2013)
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Book Title: From the Molecular World
Book Subtitle: A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy
Authors: Alan J. Rocke
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27416-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27415-2Published: 20 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-27416-9Published: 21 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 105
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, History of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics