Ideas in Chemistry: A History of the Science

by David Knight (Author)

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  1995

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  Chemistry began as the occult science of alchemy. In the 17th century, it became a mechanical science, and then, about 1800, it began to be understood as a fundamental science. It was also seen as the experimental science par excellence , as a useful science, a deductive science, a classifying science, a service science, and so on. This book provides an account of the development of chemistry, outlining both its intellectual and institutional history.