Title Experiments, models, paper tools : cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century / Ursula Klein ; editors, Timothy Lenoir and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2003

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	QD291 .K57 2003	AVAILABLE

Description	xi, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Writing science
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
Contents	Semiotics of Berzelian chemical formulas -- Two cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century: a structural comparison -- Experiments on the periphery of plant chemistry -- Paper tools for the construction of interpretive models of chemical reactions -- Paper tools for the classification of organic substances -- Paper tools for modeling the constitution of organic compounds -- Dialectic of tools and goals -- Historical transformation process -- Paper tools.
Subject(s)	Chemistry -- Notation -- History -- 19th century.
	Chemical structure -- History -- 19th century.
	Chemistry, Organic -- History -- 19th century.
Alternate Author	Lenoir, Timothy, 1948-
	Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich.
Alternate Title	Cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century