From the earliest exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today’s materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical ...
MoreFrom the earliest exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today’s materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical and biological sciences, as well as technology.
The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout history. Covering alchemy, early-modern chemistry, pneumatic chemistry, and Lavoisier’s reinterpretation of chemical change, the rise of organic and physical chemistry, and the transforming power of synthesis, it explores the extraordinary and often puzzling transformations of natural and artificial materials, as well as the men and women who experimented, speculated, and explained matter and change. ...
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