Affinity, that elusive dream : a genealogy of the chemical revolution /

In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical...

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Main Author:	Kim, Mi Gyung
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Series:	Transformations
Subjects:	Chemical affinity > History. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book