Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific CreativityUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1985 - 565 pages Drawing on Lavoisier's daily laboratory records, unpublished notes, and successive drafts of articles, Holmes explores the interaction between this creative scientist's theories and practice, the experimental problems he encountered and his response to them, the apparently intuitive understanding that guided his choice of experiments, and the gradual refinement of his hypotheses. This thorough and comprehensive exposition of Lavoisier's scientific style forms the basis for general reflections on the nature of creative scientific imagination that will interest historians of science and biology, philosophers of science, cognitive psychologists, and all who are intrigued by the drama of pioneering scientific discovery. |
Table des matières
Lavoisier in Midstream | 41 |
The Emergence of a Theory of Respiration | 63 |
Respiration and a General Theory of Combustion | 91 |
Collaboration and a Move toward Plant Chemistry | 129 |
Heat Water and Respiration | 149 |
Water Divided | 199 |
Fixing the Composition of Fixed Air | 224 |
Water and Respiration | 237 |
Language Organic Composition and Fermentation | 316 |
The Trouble with Sugar | 353 |
Plant and Animal Chemistry in the New Chemical System | 385 |
The Animal Economy | 411 |
Lavoisiers Return to Respiration | 440 |
Dissonant Echoes | 469 |
Reflections on the Creativity of One Scientist | 486 |
Notes | 505 |
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Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity Frederic Lawrence Holmes Affichage d'extraits - 1985 |
Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity Frederic Lawrence Holmes Affichage d'extraits - 1985 |
Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity Frederic Lawrence Holmes Affichage d'extraits - 1985 |
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