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020 _a0841217866 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0841217874 (paper : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)22209640
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100 1 _aSalzberg, Hugh W.
_9272943
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245 1 0 _aFrom caveman to chemist
_bcircumstances and achievements
_cby Hugh W. Salzberg.
260 _aWashington, DC
_bAmerican Chemical Society
_c1991.
300 _axix, 294 p.
_bill.
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.
505 0 _aAncient technology : the roots of chemistry -- Hellenic chemical science -- The Hellenistic and Roman eras : the rise of alchemy -- Islamic alchemy -- Medieval and Renaissance European artisans -- Medieval and Renaissance alchemists and natural philosophers -- Medieval and Renaissance medicine and medical alchemy -- The information explosion -- Changing the frame of reference : the undermining of the scientific establishment -- The first chemists : Sala, Van Helmont, Boyle -- Phlogiston : the last of the old theories -- Lavoisier and the chemical revolution -- Atomic weights and molecular formulas -- Atomic arrangements : organic chemistry -- The divisible atom.
650 0 _aChemistry
_xHistory.
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_2Local
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