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100 1 $aRocke, Alan J.,$d1948-
245 10 $aImage and reality :$bKekule?, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / $cAlan J. Rocke.
260 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2010.
300 $axxvi, 375 p. :$bill ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aSynthesis
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEther/or -- Springtime for chemistry? -- The education of Alexander Williamson -- Interpreting chemical atoms -- Williamson and Graham -- Grasping the ether -- The experimental dissection of organic molecules -- Excursus: isolated radicals? -- The spread of Williamsonian theory -- The architect of molecules -- The education of August Kekule? -- Kekule? in London -- Excursus: the road to Valence -- Molecular dreams -- Building an unseen structure -- The start of a teaching career -- Early work in Heidelberg -- The theory of polyatomic radicals -- The theory of atomicity of the elements -- Molecular epistemology -- A barometer of the science -- Writing a textbook -- Formulas, models, reality -- Excursus: a case in point -- Erlenmeyer and Kekule? -- Constant or variable atomicity? -- The heuristics of molecular representation -- Couper -- Loschmidt -- Butlerov -- Crum Brown -- Excursus: heurism in action -- The fate of the new graphic formulas -- Molecules as metaphors -- Natural types -- Absolute formulas -- Excursus: looking through the stereoscope -- Molecular democracy or autocracy? -- The revenge of Jupiter's children -- Aromatic apparitions -- First approaches to the problem -- Enter the hexagon -- Benzene through the phenakistoscope -- Excursus: ring around the rosie -- Metachemistry? -- Dimensional molecules -- Early stereospatial speculations -- The spiral staircase -- The pyramid -- Imagination in science: point/counterpoint -- Chemists, physicists, and the microworld -- Kopp's world -- The making of a chemist-historian -- In amongst the molecules -- The response -- The thirsty chemists -- Kekule?'s dreams -- The festivities in Berlin -- Kekule?'s speech -- The aftermath -- The eureka experience and the unconscious mind -- The scientific image-ination -- Mental images and science -- Mental images and history -- Transdictive images in physics and in chemistry.
600 10 $aKekule?, August,$d1829-1896.
600 10 $aKopp, Hermann,$d1817-1892.
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650 0 $aImagination.
650 0 $aVisualization.
830 0 $aSynthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
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