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The University of Chicago Press
Language
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Subjects
History, Organic Chemistry, Visualization, Methodology, Imagination, Science
People
Hermann Kopp (1817-1892), August Kekulé (1829-1896)
Times
19th century

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Table of Contents

Ether/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 Kekulé
Kekulé 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 Kekulé
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
Kekulé's dreams
The festivities in Berlin
Kekulé'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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London
Series
Synthesis, Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)

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Dewey Decimal Class
540.9/034
Library of Congress
QD248 .R63 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23575948M
Internet Archive
imagerealitykeku00rock
ISBN 10
0226723321
ISBN 13
9780226723327
LCCN
2009025749
OCLC/WorldCat
419263942

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