Alan J Rocke: 2 books
Image and Reality
Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
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....
From the Molecular World
A Nineteenth-Century Science Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Hermann Kopp (1817–1892) is best remembered today as a historian of chemistry, but during his lifetime he was one of the most eminent chemists of his day, and one of the earliest pioneers of physical chemistry. Late in his career he wrote an endearing fantasy about personified molecules. Published...