Format:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031365584
Series Statement:
History of Physics Series
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Matter and Classical Science -- 2 The Legacy of Antiquity -- 2.1 Knowledge from Crafts and Techniques -- 2.2 Matter in Ancient Philosophy -- 2.2.1 The Pre-socratics' Concept of Matter -- 2.2.2 Atomism -- 2.2.3 Nature in the Aristotelian System -- 2.3 Alchemy -- References -- 3 Matter at the Beginning of the Scientific Revolution -- 3.1 Empirical Knowledge of Matter -- 3.2 Matter and Substances in Arab, Medieval and Renaissance Alchemy -- 3.3 Matter and Substances in the Philosophical and Scholarly Tradition -- References -- 4 Matter in the Seventeenth Century -- 4.1 Alchemical and Chemical Quests in the First Half of Century -- 4.2 Matter and Physical Properties: Air and Vacuum -- 4.2.1 Experiments with Vacuum -- 4.2.2 Combustion, Respiration and Calcination. The Complex Nature of Air -- 4.3 Mechanical Philosophy and Atomism in the Seventeenth Century -- 4.3.1 Atomism of Gassendi, Boyle and Newton -- 4.4 Boyle's Criticism of Aristotelian and Alchemical Concepts -- References -- 5 Matter in the Eighteenth Century -- 5.1 Phlogiston Theory -- 5.2 Matter in the Gaseous State -- 5.2.1 Black and Fixed Air (Carbon Dioxide) -- 5.2.2 Cavendish and Inflammable Air (Hydrogen) -- 5.2.3 Oxygen, Nitrogen and Air -- 5.3 Combustion and Calcination -- 5.4 Composition of Water and Confutation of the Phlogiston Theory -- 5.5 Chemistry and Matter at the End of Eighteenth Century -- 5.5.1 Conservation of Matter and Chemical Elements -- 5.5.2 Compounds and Affinity -- 5.5.3 Combination and Equivalents -- References -- 6 Matter and Electricity -- 6.1 The Voltaic Pile -- 6.2 Electrolysis -- References -- 7 Chemistry and Matter in the Nineteenth Century -- 7.1 Revival of Atomism -- 7.1.1 Avogadro's Law -- 7.1.2 The Dualistic Theory of Affinity -- 7.1.3 Faraday and the Electrolysis.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031365577
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe EVANGELISTI, FLORESTANO CONCEPT OF MATTER [S.l.] : SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2023 ISBN 3031365577
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031365577
Language:
English
