Image and reality :: Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination /

Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In...

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1. Verfasser: Rocke, Alan J., 1948-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
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Zusammenfassung:Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for a fuller understanding of the nature of scientific creativity. Arguing that visual mental images regularly assisted many of these scientists in thinking through old problems and new possib.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvi, 375 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226723358
0226723356