Article ID: CBB001210467

Georg Helm's Chemical Energetics (2012)

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Deltete, Robert J. (Author)


Hyle
Volume: 18
Pages: 23--44


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Chemistry and Mathematics, Part 1”.
Language: English

This essay has three interrelated goals: first, to sketch the basic contours of Georg Helm's energetic theory; second, to describe his attempt in his Grundzüge der mathematischen Chemie. Energetik der chemischen Erscheinungen (1894) to apply that theory to the (then) burgeoning new field of physical chemistry. This is of some interest historically, since Helm's work is the most sophisticated attempt to develop the whole of physical chemistry mathematically from an energetic point of view. Nevertheless, it is seriously flawed technically. Moreover, that development is inconsistent with Helm's considered way of thinking about energy and energetic change. So a third goal of the essay is to explain his mature conception of the goal of energetics. I begin with a brief introduction to Helm and energetics, and end with some general conclusions about the success of Helm's mathematische Chemie.

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Authors & Contributors
Deltete, Robert J.
Brakel, Jaap van
Cotter, Donald
Cramer, J. S.
Deichmann, Ute
Dolecki, M.
Journals
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Dahlemer Archivgespräche
Hyle
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
University of Toronto
Yale University
HYLE Publications
Concepts
Chemistry
Physical chemistry
Mathematics and its relationship to science
Philosophy of science
Mathematics
Physics
People
Helm, Georg Ferdinand
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
Hoff, Jacobus Henricus van't
Brodie, Benjamin Collins
Bruner, Ludwik
Cooke, Josiah Parsons, Jr.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Prague (Czechia)
Cracow (Poland)
Institutions
University of Chicago
Universität Dorpat
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