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This second edition is a corrected and updated version of the first one of 2009 with important news on Planck's constant (and the calculations in the background) and a démasqué of Einstein's calculations of 1911 and 1915 leading to General Relativity.

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Table of Contents

Volume I.
Contents. v
Preface. xi
Introduction. xxxix-lxiv
Chapter I. Atomism; Antiquity, Middle-Ages, Renaissance Page 1
1.1. Introduction Page 1
1.2. Leucippus and Democritus; Archimedes Page 2
1.3. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) Page 8
1.4. Epicurus' heirs: Philodemus, Lucretius, and Diogenes Page 13
1.5. Patristics and High Scholasticism Page 23
1.6. Girolamo Fracastoro: contagia as disease vectors Page 26
1.7. Atomism in the tradition Page 29
Chapter II. The first molecular theory: Isaac Beeckman (1620) Page 33
2.1. Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637) Page 33
2.2. Homogenea physica as molecules Page 40
2.3. Mathematics and physics in a discrete world; the law of free fall Page 51
2.4. Physical homogenea as substantial individuals Page 57
Chapter III. The rise of molecularism (XVIIth-XVIIIth century) Page 61
3.1. Substantial individuals in the XVIIth century; Descartes and Huygens Page 61
3.2. Physics: Newton, Van Musschenbroek, Laplace Page 66
3.3. Chemistry: Stahl and Lavoisier Page 79
3.4. Biology: Van Leeuwenhoek, Buffon, Dutrochet Page 89
3.5. Close: crystallography Page 102
Chapter IV. Physics in the XIXth century Page 109
4.1. The gaseous state; thermometry, pyrometry, calorimetry Page 109
4.2. Gay-Lussac and Dalton; new laws Page 115
4.3. The theory of heat, from Carnot to Clausius Page 125
4.4. The kinetic theory of gases; Clausius and Buys Ballot Page 131
4.5. The equation of state according to Van der Waals Page 138
4.6. Statistical mechanics and quantum physics: Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Planck Page 152
4.7. Molecules quantitatively: Loschmidt, Rutherford, and Boltwood. Loschmidt's number Page 170
4.8. Jean Perrin: grains as molecules. Avogadro's number Page 175
4.9. Physics and philosophy; molecularism and positivism Page 180
4.10. Molecular physics 1800-1900; Maxwell, Lorentz, Einstein; Gibbs Page 190
Chapter V. Chemistry in the XIXth century Page 201
5.1. Solutions, mixtures, and compounds; combining laws Page 201
5.2. Dalton and Gay-Lussac; weight versus volume laws. Avogadro Page 206
5.3. Molecular electrochemical dualism; Berzelius Page 212
5.4. Relative atomic weights and/or equivalents; lacking coherence Page 222
5.5. From radicals to types; (equi)valence; Gerhardt, Kekulé Page 226
5.6. Physical stoichiometry; structure and additivity. Kopp Page 244
5.7. Chemistry as stereochemistry: Kekulé, Le Bel, Van 't Hoff, Werner Page 253
5.8. Tautomerism and desmotropy; Laar and Baeyer Page 266
5.9. Molecular chemistry 1800-1900; Karlsruhe 1860 Page 278
Chapter VI. Biology and medicine in the XIXth century Page 297
6.1. The living organism and its parts; the emancipation of biology Page 297
6.2. Organic molecules and cells; Dutrochet, Schleiden, Schwann Page 307
6.3. From physiology to pathology; Virchow Page 316
6.4. Organisms: uni- or pluricellular Page 326
6.4.1. The classification of living beings Page 327
6.4.2. Pasteur, Koch, Beijerinck; microbes, bacteria, viruses Page 330
6.5. Growth, reproduction, and heridity; from Mohl to Morgan Page 347
6.6. Molecular reign: Brown-Séquard, Eijkman, Ehrlich Page 365
6.7. The nature of life, 1800-1915; biological stoichiometry Page 377
Chapter VII. Crystallography and mineralogy in the XIXth century Page 391
7.1. The concept of 'individual' in natural history; mathematizations Page 391
7.2. Mitscherlich: isomorphism and polymorphism Page 398
7.3. The concept of 'symmetry'; Haüy and Weiss Page 407
7.3.1. The French school Page 408
7.3.2. The German school Page 425
7.4. Group theory and symmetry; from Jordan to Schoenflies Page 440
7.5. The status of points; molecules and/or atoms Page 445
7.6. Röntgen's radiation and the breakthrough of lattice theory; Laue et al., Bragg and Bragg Page 456
7.7. Molecular lattices: the rule becomes the exception Page 469
Volume II.
Contents. v
Chapter VIII. The rise of the Système international; molecules (atoms) as gauges Page 481
8.1. Particles: number, dimensions, weight Page 481
8.2. Units: from Stevin and Snellius to Delambre and Méchain Page 488
8.3. The Convention du mètre (1875-1900) and the Conférences générales [..] Page 497
8.4. From CGS (1873) to SI (1960); Landolt-Börnstein and the Handbook [..] Page 512
8.5. From grammolecule to mole; Ostwald, Avogadro, and Loschmidt Page 521
8.6. Avogadro's number and the kilogram as unit mass; Si and its metrological potentials Page 528
8.7. Units: past and present. Atomic and molecular measures Page 537
Chapter IX. The molecular sciences in the XXth century Page 541
9.1. The XXth century: a first impression Page 541
9.2. Physics and chemistry; 1896-1925 Page 548
9.2.1. The atom; Thomson, Curie-Skłodowska, Rutherford Page 549
9.2.2. Atoms and molecules; Bohr, Lewis Page 569
9.2.3. Molekularstrahlen; palpable statistics; Stern Page 582
9.3. Molecular physics since 1925 Page 587
9.4. Molecular chemistry since 1925 Page 611
9.5. Biology and medicine; 1915-1940 Page 644
9.6. The life sciences since 1940 Page 668
9.7. Close; crystallography as a bridge Page 697
Chapter X. Epilogue. The molecularization in a bird's-eye view Page 707
10.1. Other markers, other perspectives Page 707
10.2. Historiography: variations upon a theme Page 722
10.3. The Universum Arausiacum Page 736
Bibliography. Page 737
Primary sources. Page 737
Secondary sources. Page 771
Index of names. Page 801
Index of subjects. Page 843
Honorary Committee. Page 963-964

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lxiv, 964
Number of pages
1028
Dimensions
24.0 x 16.0 x 5.5 centimeters
Weight
1410 grams

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