From Atomos to Atom 0486495841
English translation of original Dutch edition (Van atomos naar atoom, 1952). Translated by Henry J. Koren.
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English Pages 240 [250] Year 1960
Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Part One - The Concept Atom Before the Origin of the Physical Atomic Theory
Chapter 1 - The Philosophy of Greece
1 Introduction
2 The Importance of Grecian Philosophy
3 The First Grecian Philosophers
4 Democritus
5 The Theories of Anaxagoras and Empedocles
6 Plato
7 Aristotle
8 Grecian Philosophy After Aristotle
Chapter 2 - The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
1 General Outline
2 Aristotle's Doctrine of Minima in his Commentators
3 Scaliger
4 Atomism
5 The Development of Practical Chemistry
Chapter 3 - The Seventeenth Century
1 The Special Importance of this Century
2 Sennert
3 Basso and van Goorle
4 Gassendi
5 Descartes
6 Robert Boyle
7 The Mechanics of the Seventeenth Century
8 Review of the Seventeenth Century
Part Two - The Concept of Atom in Physical Science
Chapter 4 - The Origin of the Physical Atomic Theory
1 The Development Before Dalton
2 Dalton's Atomic Theory
3 First Development After Dalton
5 Organic Chemistry
6 The Kinetic Theory of Gases
7 The Electromagnetic Light Theory
8 The Electronic Theory
9 The Development of the Periodic Table
10 The Philosophic Background of the Atomic Theory Around 1900
Chapter 5 - The Atomic Theory in the Twentieth Century
1 The Atomic Model of Rutherford and Bohr
2 The Dualistic Character of Matter
3 Nuclear Physics
4 The Philosophic Background of the Contemporaneous Atomic Theory
Chapter 6 - Science of Nature, Philosophy, and Philosophy of Nature
1 Introduction
2 The Right of Philosophy to Exist as a Science in its Own Right
3 The Importance of Ancient Philosophic Systems as Regards Natural Science and General Philosophy
4 The Right to Existence of Natural Philosophy
5 The Value of Greek Philosophy of Nature
6 The Philosophic Background of the Science of Nature
7 Recapitulation
Chapter Seven - Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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