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What History Tells Us about the Distinct Nature of Chemistry (2017)

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Attention to the history of chemistry can help us recognise the characteristics of chemistry that have helped to maintain it as a separate scientific discipline with a unique identity. Three such features are highlighted in this paper. First, chemistry has maintained a distinct type of theoretical thinking, independent from that of physics even in the era of quantum chemistry. Second, chemical research has always been shaped by its ineliminable practical relevance and usefulness. Third, the lived experience of chemistry, spanning the laboratory, the classroom and everyday life, is distinctive in its multidimensional sensuousness. Furthermore, I argue that the combination of these three features makes chemistry an exemplary science.

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Article Jennifer M. Rampling (2017) The Future of the History of Chemistry. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 295-300). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Frercks, Jan
Perkins, John H.
Beretta, Marco
Beyer, Lothar
Brock, William H.
Dorsman, Leen
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Passage-Verl.
University of Chicago Press
Vuibert
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
Concepts
Chemistry
Science education and teaching
Discipline formation
Laboratories
History of science, as a discipline
Historians of science, modern
People
Boerhaave, Herman
Cohen, Ernst
Conant, James Bryant
Davy, Humphry
Diderot, Denis
Goettling, Johann Friedrich August
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Germany
Great Britain
France
Vienna (Austria)
Paris (France)
Russia
Institutions
Universität Leipzig
Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV)
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