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Laws and Order in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
Laws and Order in EighteenthCentury Chemistry Author:A. M. Duncan, Alistair Duncan The 18th century was the formative period in which chemistry established itself as an autonomous discipline with its own concepts and modes of explanation, independent of mathematical physics. Yet much previous writing in this area has concentrated on theories derived from more traditional fields such as physics. This book traces chemistry's tra... more »nsition from alchemy to its own branch of knowledge. For science historians and philosophers and chemists with an interest in their field's origins, this book is a good recounting of chemistry's evolution as a legitimate field of science.« less