Historical Studies in the Language of ChemistryAppropriate for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, this volume traces the development of a chemical language. Five self-contained sections define historical problems, covering language of alchemy, early chemical terminology, systematic nomenclature, chemical symbolism, and language of organic chemistry. "The authoritative text in its field." — Isis. 1962 edition. |
Contents
FURTHER DIFFICULTIES OF LANGUAGE | 25 |
THE DILEMMA OF ALCHEMICAL | 43 |
EARLY TERMINOLOGY AND NAMES | 65 |
TERMINOLOGY BASED ON OTHER | 79 |
THE GROWTH OF CHEMISTRY | 94 |
THE MOVE TOWARDS REFORM | 114 |
3The Introduction of Systematic Nomenclature into | 131 |
THE REFORM OF NOMENCLATURE | 139 |
EARLY NINETEENTHCENTURY | 215 |
THE SYMBOLS OF HASSENFRATZ | 245 |
ture The Part played by Thomas Thomson | 256 |
THE SYMBOLS OF BERZELIUS | 265 |
5The Language of Organic Chemistry | 283 |
NOMENCLATURE BASED ON SYSTEMS | 299 |
COMPOUNDS BY FORMULAE | 319 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMATIC | 338 |
THE CHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE | 153 |
THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO | 168 |
CHIMIQUE AND THE INTRODUCTION | 177 |
THE RECEPTION OF THE | 193 |
THE ADOPTION OF THE | 207 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 355 |
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