Ramberg, Peter J.
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: The Cultural Histories Series
Número de páginas: 288 págs. 16.9 x 24.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 14-12-2023
EAN: 9781474294805
ISBN: 978-1-4742-9480-5
Precio (sin IVA): 100,29 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 104,30 €
This work covers the period from 1815 to 1914 and the birth of modern chemistry. The elaboration of atomic theory - and new ideas of periodicity, structure, bonding, and equilibrium - emerged in tandem with new instruments and practices. The chemical industry expanded exponentially, fuelled by an increasing demand for steel, aluminium, dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. And the chemical laboratory became established in its two distinct modern settings of the university and industry. At the turn of the century, the discovery of radioactivity took hold of the public imagination, drawing chemistry closer to physics, even as it threatened to undermine the whole concept of atomism.