| Title | : | Chemistry and the Enlightenment (Science Discovery) |
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| ISBN | : | 0786164336 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780786164332 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Audio CD |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2006 |
The Science and Discovery Series recreates one of history's most successful journeys--four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.
Chemistry and the Enlightenment (Science Discovery) Reviews
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If books were represented by a colour, this one would be beige: nothing wrong with it, just a bit bland.
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Great chemistry histories refresher.
Antoine Lavoisier determined that oxygen was a key substance in combustion, and he gave the element its name. He developed the modern system of naming chemical substances and has been called the “father of modern chemistry” for his emphasis on careful experimentation.
Metalwork
5bc China already produced cast iron
2000 years later European slowly followed
Bronze Age
Iron Age
16th century New metals: Arsenic, antimony, Bismuth and zinc.
Printing press
Works on metal working appeared
Smelting
crucible
Link between medicine and chemistry
Paracelsus
He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is credited as the "father of toxicology".[14] Paracelsus also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his "Prognostications" being studied by Rosicrucians in the 1600s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works.[15]
Mummies
Oil of Vitriol-sulfuric acid
Alchemy based
Salt sulfur and mercury
Mercury-quicksilver-only metal molten at normal temperatures
Alchemical terms:
Lead-Saturn
Iron-mars
Copper-Venus
All terms died out except mercury
Human drive for Patterns and order, judgement of senses and physical
Simplify
Francis Bacon
Decade later René Descartes
Frances Boyle
Graphite and diamonds both pure carbon
Plants convert water to oil
Scottish enlightenment
Joesph Black
Carbon dioxide-Fixed air
Quick lime-
Rutherford Nitrogen - noxious air
Inflammable air-hydrogens
Priestly
Ben Franklin
Impregnate water with pure air
Foundation of carbonated beverage industry
The mouse and the plant experiment
Discovered oxygen
Our prejudices
Shellburn
Dalton
Electrical current to break bonds
Atoms vs molecules
Atomic weights
Underlying pattern of elements
Periodic table
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
Discovery of chemical bonding
Big Bang
Hydrogen
200 million years
First stars-Thermonuclear energy released with transformation of hydrogen to helium
Core of each star consists entirely of helium contract rapidly and helium to carbon , increase temp and heavy elements up to iron were synthesized and contracted violent ejecting out into galaxy, gas and dust,
Primordial elements of hydrogen and helium, as well as the heavy elements of carbon, oxygen, sodium, calcium and iron forming younger stars and planets. -
A tiny book of 3 lectures covering an overview of how the science of chemistry arose out of the original undisciplined efforts termed alchemy. Gives a good appreciation of why this was so much harder than the birth of physics, which was the original birth of science.
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This is a straight forward history of science as chemistry transitioned from alchemy to something scientific and methodical. It began with the analysis of gasses.
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It was enlightening...lol
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Science books are always full of wonderful information.
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It sets out to tell the story of the transition from alchemy to chemistry, and to that end it succeeds. I enjoyed the historical description of the this gradual yet interesting story of how revelations slowly turned what was, at first, considered more of an art into the firm science it is today. As a brief summary it works and does relate a lot of real quotes from the scientists along the way.
That said, it's brief and feels a bit outdated in approach. It's not bad and I don't really have a better recommendation on the subject but I would have liked more depth and detail. -
This was a nice primer on the genesis of modern chemistry as a respected, informative science. It strengthened my interest in learning more Antoine Lavoisier and Robert Boyle among many other important chemists of that era.
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Really interesting, but a little dry.
