"Looks at the history of synthetic organic chemistry and challenges long-held beliefs that theory drove the experiments, asserting that it was actually the lab work that birthed the theory"--
"Looks at the history of synthetic organic chemistry and challenges long-held beliefs that theory drove the experiments, asserting that it was actually the lab work that birthed the theory"--
Catherine M. Jackson is Associate Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford, Peck Fellow in History at Harris Manchester College, and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
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Acknowledgments ix Archival Sources xiii Introduction: Molecular World 1 1 Analysis Mania 19 2 Sure Reagent 49 3 Glassware Revolution 77 4 Capital Chemist 105 5 Laboratory Reasoning 137 6 Ammonia Type 161 7 Chemical Identity Crisis 191 8 Laboratory Landscape 225 9 The Science of Synthesis 265 Conclusion: Making Modern Chemistry 297 Notes 311 Bibliography 397 Index 429
