San Antonio College Library

In this book, Mary Jo Nye traces the social and intellectual history of the physical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War. Nye examines the sweeping transformation of scientific institutions and professions during the period and the groundbreaking experiments and scientific investigations that fueled that change, from the earliest investigations of molecular chemistry and field dynamics to the revolutionary...

A collection of essays containing 42 tales of chemists and their discoveries from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

"'John Dalton was a very singular man. A Quaker by profession and practice, he had none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician, he gained his livelihood, I believe, by teaching mathematics to young people ... ; he followed with ardour analogies and inductions. ... I have no doubt that he was one of the most original philosophers of his times, and one of the most ingenious.' Thus did the great scientist, Sir Humphrey Davy, describe...