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Organic Synthesis and the Unification of Chemistry—A Reappraisal

John Hedley Brooke

British Journal for the History of Science 5 (4):363-392 (1971)

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Self-assembly, self-organization: Nanotechnology and vitalism. [REVIEW]Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent - 2009 - NanoEthics 3 (1):31-42.details Over the past decades, self-assembly has attracted a lot of research attention and transformed the relations between chemistry, materials science and biology. The paper explores the impact of the current interest in self-assembly techniques on the traditional debate over the nature of life. The first section describes three different research programs of self-assembly in nanotechnology in order to characterize their metaphysical implications: (1) Hybridization (using the building blocks of living systems for making devices and machines) ; (2) Biomimetics (making artifacts (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Paper Tools In Experimental Cultures.Ursula Klein - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 32 (2):265-302.details The paper studies various functions of Berzelian formulas in European organic chemistry prior to the mid-nineteenth century from a semiotic, historical and epistemological perspective. I argue that chemists applied Berzelian formulas as productive ‘paper tools’ for creating a chemical order in the ‘jungle’ of organic chemistry. Beginning in the late 1820s, chemists applied chemical formulas to build models of the binary constitution of organic compounds in analogy to inorganic compounds. Based on these formula models, they constructed new classifications of organic (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 16 citations
Radicals and Types: A critical comparison of the methodologies of Popper and Lanatos and their use in the reconstruction of some 19th century chemistry.Hannah Gay - 1976 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 7 (1):1.details Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
On the neglect of the philosophy of chemistry.J. van Brakel - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (2):111-174.details In this paper I present a historiography of the recent emergence of philosophy of chemistry. Special attention is given to the interest in this domain in Eastern Europe before the collapse of the USSR. It is shown that the initial neglect of the philosophy of chemistry is due to the unanimous view in philosophy and philosophy of science that only physics is a proper science (to put in Kant's words). More recently, due to the common though incorrect assumption that chemistry (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 13 citations
Kekulé, Butlerov, and the Historiography of the Theory of Chemical Structure.A. J. Rocke - 1981 - British Journal for the History of Science 14 (1):27-57.details In 1858, August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper independently published similar ideas regarding the tetravalence and self-linking ability of carbon atoms; three years later, the Russian chemist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov read a paper at the German Naturforscherversammlung in Speyer, which restated, clarified, and enlarged upon the ideas of Kekulé and Couper. In 1958, the centenary of the structure theory was celebrated in Chicago, London, Heidelberg, and Ghent; the celebrations in Moscow, Frunze, and Kazan took place three years later. For over (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
On knowing, acting, and the location of technoscience: A response to Barry Barnes.John Pickstone - 2005 - Perspectives on Science 13 (2):267-278.details Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations

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