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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Image and reality
    sub title: Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination
  name:
    name part: Rocke, Alan J.
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Ether/or -- Springtime for chemistry? -- The education of Alexander Williamson -- Interpreting chemical atoms -- Williamson and Graham -- Grasping the ether -- The experimental dissection of organic molecules -- Excursus: isolated radicals? -- The spread of Williamsonian theory -- The architect of molecules -- The education of August Kekulé -- Kekulé in London -- Excursus: the road to Valence -- Molecular dreams -- Building an unseen structure -- The start of a teaching career -- Early work in Heidelberg -- The theory of polyatomic radicals -- The theory of atomicity of the elements -- Molecular epistemology -- A barometer of the science -- Writing a textbook -- Formulas, models, reality -- Excursus: a case in point -- Erlenmeyer and Kekulé -- Constant or variable atomicity? -- The heuristics of molecular representation -- Couper -- Loschmidt -- Butlerov -- Crum Brown -- Excursus: heurism in action -- The fate of the new graphic formulas -- Molecules as metaphors -- Natural types -- Absolute formulas -- Excursus: looking through the stereoscope -- Molecular democracy or autocracy? -- The revenge of Jupiter's children -- Aromatic apparitions -- First approaches to the problem -- Enter the hexagon -- Benzene through the phenakistoscope -- Excursus: ring around the rosie -- Metachemistry? -- Dimensional molecules -- Early stereospatial speculations -- The spiral staircase -- The pyramid -- Imagination in science: point/counterpoint -- Chemists, physicists, and the microworld -- Kopp's world -- The making of a chemist-historian -- In amongst the molecules -- The response -- The thirsty chemists -- Kekulé's dreams -- The festivities in Berlin -- Kekulé's speech -- The aftermath -- The eureka experience and the unconscious mind -- The scientific image-ination -- Mental images and science -- Mental images and history -- Transdictive images in physics and in chemistry.
  note: Alan J. Rocke.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry, Organic
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Imagination
  subject:
    topic: Visualization
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kekulé, August
      name part: 1829-1896
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kopp, Hermann
      name part: 1817-1892
  classification: QD248 .R63 2010
  classification: 540.9/034
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
  identifier: 9780226723327 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0226723321 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009025749
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 090622
    record change date: 20151201150833.0
    record identifier: in00002583179