Early Responses to the Periodic System


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A collection of comparative studies on the reception, response, and appropriation of the periodic system of elements in eleven countries.







Catalogue of Rare Books


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Communicating Chemistry


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Historians and philosophers of science offer 18 papers from a European Science Foundation workshop held in Uppsala, Sweden, in February 1996, explore such questions as how textbooks differ from other forms of chemical literature, under what conditions they become established as a genre, whether they develop a specific rhetoric, how their audiences help shape the profile of chemistry, translations, and other topics. Only names are indexed.













Accounts and Papers


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