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A Quantum Chemical Dialogue Mediated by Textbooks: Pauling's The Nature of the Chemical Bond and Coulson's Valence (2008)

Simões, Ana I. (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 62
Pages: 259--269

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Textbooks Science education and teaching Quantum chemistry Scientific communities; interprofessional relations 20th century, early Coulson, Charles Alfred Pauling, Linus Carl

In this paper I look at Coulson's Valence not as the textbook that ended the hegemonic reign of Pauling's The nature of the chemical bond, but as the outcome of an ongoing conversation, either literal or metaphorical, between Pauling and Coulson, in which each scientist was responding to the other, agreeing or disagreeing with him, in the process revising his ideas, and writing the successive editions of his textbook. Far from merely expository devices, these textbooks were central pieces in an intellectual dialogue involving their authors about scientific theories and the status of concepts and, to a certain extent, about their competing philosophies of science. Keywords

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