Download or read book A Vital Rationalist written by Georges Canguilhem and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians that there could be no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge. A Vital Rationalist brings together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges. Organized around the major themes and problems that have preoccupied Canguilhem throughout his intellectual career, the collection allows readers, whether familiar or unfamiliar with Canguilhem's work, access to a vast array of conceptual and concrete meditations on epistemology, methodology, science, and history. Canguilhem is a demanding writer, but Delaporte succeeds in marking out the main lines of his thought with unrivaled clarity; readers will come away with a heightened understanding of the complex and crucial place he holds in French intellectual history.
Download or read book The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry written by Carl Schorlemmer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Chemistry written by Antoine Lavoisier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; August 26, 1743 - May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He is widely considered in popular literature as the "father of modern chemistry." The 1789 publication of Elements of Chemistry (Trait� �l�mentaire de chimie) became the first modern textbook on chemistry and represented Lavoisier's major contribution to the field. Within this work, Lavoisier introduced a new nomenclature, proposed an oxygen theory that dismantled the theory of phlogiston, presented a clear statement of the law of conservation of mass, clarified the concept of an element as a substance that could not be broken down by any known physical process, and described the method whereby compounds are formed from elements.
Download or read book Antoine Lavoisier written by Lisa Yount and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. Using experiments and careful measurements, he created a system to help chemists understand how matter behaves. He discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, and helped set up a system to classify these and other elements. Perhaps his most famous discovery is the role oxygen plays in combustion.
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Download or read book The Practical Methods of Organic Chemistry written by Ludwig Gattermann and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lavoisier the Crucial Year written by Henry Guerlac and published by Gordon & Breach Science Pub. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Henry Guerlac's book, we knew little about the reasons that led the great chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier to discover the role of air in combustion. Henry Guerlac finds that this breakthrough that began the Chemical Revolution did not come "ex nihilo," as many historians claim. Rather, it marked the culmination of research by British and French chemists, radically refashioned by Lavoisier and his disciples. Henry Guerlac portrays Lavoisier integrating Continental and British chemical traditions. Like New ton in physics and Darwin in biology, Lavoisier was a revolutionary. This work presents his in a vigorous and innovative light.
Download or read book Antoine Lavoisier written by Arthur Donovan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive account illuminating Lavoisier's role in the rise of modern chemistry and the French Revolution.
Download or read book Antoine Lavoisier The Next Crucial Year written by Frederic Lawrence Holmes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his development of quantitative experimental methods, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) implemented a principle that many regard as the cornerstone of modern science: in every operation there is an equal quantity of material before and after the operation. The origin of Lavoisier's methods, however, has remained a missing piece in this remarkable episode of scientific history, perhaps because the talented young scientist himself was not prepared for the journey his discoveries would set before him. In this book, Frederic Holmes suggests that Lavoisier gradually came to understand the nature and power of his quantitative method during the year 1773, when he began to carry out a research program on the fixation and release of airs. Drawing upon Lavoisier's surviving laboratory notebooks, Holmes presents an engaging portrait of a scientist still seeking the way that would lead him to become the leader of one of the great upheavals in the history of science. Holmes follows Lavoisier day-by-day at work in his laboratory over a course of several months. The scientist's resourcefulness and imagination spring to life in this account, as does his propensity to make mistakes, which taught him as much as his successes. During the course of this odyssey, Lavoisier saw his early theory of combustion collapse under the weight of his own efforts to provide experimental evidence to support it. In compensation, he acquired a method and the hard-won experience on which he would later construct a more enduring theoretical structure. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life written by Frederic Lawrence Holmes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Lavoisier's daily laboratory records, unpublished notes, and successive drafts of articles, Holmes explores the interaction between this creative scientist's theories and practice, the experimental problems he encountered and his response to them, the apparently intuitive understanding that guided his choice of experiments, and the gradual refinement of his hypotheses. This thorough and comprehensive exposition of Lavoisier's scientific style forms the basis for general reflections on the nature of creative scientific imagination that will interest historians of science and biology, philosophers of science, cognitive psychologists, and all who are intrigued by the drama of pioneering scientific discovery.
Download or read book Lectures on the History of the Development of Chemistry Since the Time of Lavoisier written by Albert Ladenburg and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Science Chemistry written by Antoine Lavoisier and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most revolutionary scientific works ever written, and also one of the most accessible, Lavoisier's Elementary Treatise on Chemistry established the constancy of weight in chemical reactions, revealed the composition of water, and set forth a clear concept of the nature of gases. The Treatise cemented a new, rational nomenclature that accurately expressed the nature of materials. Lavoisier presents experimental facts in expressions that are vivid, exact, and often poetical. As a result, the Treatise is still, after more than 200 years, a model of clarity and scientific reasoning. Lavoisier's magnificent work, last translated into English in 1790, is now presented in a rendition that preserves the natural and unadorned liveliness of Lavoisier's narrative prose. Howard Fisher's extensive commentary furnishes a gentle guiding hand through unfamiliar terms and experimental procedures.
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Download or read book Galileo as a Critic of the Arts written by Erwin Panofsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antoine Lavoisier written by Lynn Van Gorp and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine Lavoisier has been called the founder of modern chemistry. The French scientist is most remembered for developing the scientific method, which is a careful, step-by-step process for proving or disproving something.
Download or read book Essays in Natural History and Philosophy written by John Hill and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
