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Chemistry

The Impure Science

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Jonathan Simon

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Chemistry

The Impure Science

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Jonathan Simon

A presentation of the history and philosophy of chemistry. It introduces the reader to various themes in the domain, and argues for a thesis: chemistry is not reducible to physics, but rather needs it own philosophy that reflects its practical engagement with the material world.

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World Scientific

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1848162251

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9781848162259

Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition)

By: Jonathan Simon,Bernadette Bensaude-vincent

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Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition)

By: Jonathan Simon,Bernadette Bensaude-vincent

What do you associate with chemistry? Explosions, innovative materials, plastics, pollution? The public's confused and contradictory conception of chemistry as basic science, industrial producer and polluter contributes to what we present in this book as chemistry's image as an impure science. Historically, chemistry has always been viewed as impure both in terms of its academic status and its role in transforming modern society. While exploring the history of this science we argue for a characteristic philosophical approach that distinguishes chemistry from physics. This reflection leads us to a philosophical stance that we characterise as operational realism. In this new expanded edition we delve deeper into the questions of properties and potentials that are so important for this philosophy that is based on the manipulation of matter rather than the construction of theories./a

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World Scientific

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1908977620

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9781908977625

The Public Image of Chemistry

By: Joachim Schummer,Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Brigitte van Tiggelen

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The Public Image of Chemistry

By: Joachim Schummer,Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Brigitte van Tiggelen

Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into cells that are found throughout the body. This fundamental property of stem cells suggests that they can potentially be used to replace degenerative cells within the body, and regenerate the functional capacity of organ systems that have deteriorated because of disease or aging. This authoritative textbook provides an overview of the latest advances in the field of stem cell biology, spanning topics that include nuclear reprogramming, somatic cell cloning, and determinants of cell fate; embryonic stem cells for hematopoietic and pancreatic repair; adult stem cells for cardiovascular, neural, renal, and hepatic repair; and manufacturing of stem cells for clinical use.

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390

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World Scientific

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9812775854

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9789812775856

Carbon

A Biography

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Sacha Loeve

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Carbon

A Biography

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Sacha Loeve

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as anything other than the villain of our fossil-based economy, feeding an addiction which is driving dangerous levels of consumption and international conflict and which, left unchecked, could lead to our demise as a species. But the impact of CO2 on climate change only tells part of the story, and to demonize carbon as an element which will bring about the downfall of humanity is to reduce it to a pale shadow of itself. In this major new history of carbon, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve show that this omnipresent element is at the root of countless histories and adventures through time, thanks to its extraordinary versatility. Carbon has a long and prestigious CV: its work and achievements extend far beyond the burning of fossil fuels. The fourth most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant element in the human body, carbon is the chemical basis of all known life. Carbon chemistry has a long history, with applications ranging from jewellery to heating, underpinning developments in metallurgy, textiles, pharmaceuticals, electronics, nanoscience and green technologies. A biography of carbon transgresses the boundaries between chemical and social existence, between nature and culture, forcing us to abandon the simplified image of carbon as the anti-hero of human civilization and enabling us to see instead the great diversity of carbon’s modes of existence. With scientific precision and literary flair, Bensaude-Vincent and Loeve unravel the surprising ways in which carbon has shaped our world, showing how unrecognizable the earth would be without it. Uncovering the many hidden lives of carbon allows us to view our own with fresh eyes.

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228

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509559213

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9781509559213

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

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Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science was cultivated for a variety of purposes in many different places; scientific instruments were built and used for investigative and didactic experiments as well as for entertainment and popular shows. Between the culture of curiosities which characterized the seventeenth century and the distinction between academic and popular science that gradually emerged in the nineteenth, the eighteenth century was a period when scientific activities took place in a variety of sites, ranging from academies, and learned societies to salons and popular fairs, shops and streets. This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth-century: entertainment and utility. Experimental demonstrations were attended by apothecaries and craftsmen for vocational purposes. At the same time, they had to fit in with the taste of both polite society and market culture. Public demonstrations were a favourite entertainment for ladies and gentlemen and a profitable activity for instrument makers and booksellers.

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188

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Routledge

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1351901877

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9781351901871

A History of Chemistry

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Isabelle Stengers

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A History of Chemistry

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Isabelle Stengers

Presents chemistry as a science in search of an identity, or rather as a science whose identity has changed in response to its relation to society and other disciplines. This book discusses the conceptual, experimental, and technological challenges with wh

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Harvard University Press

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0674396596

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9780674396593

Book's by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition)

Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition)

The Public Image of Chemistry

The Public Image of Chemistry

Carbon

Carbon

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

A History of Chemistry

A History of Chemistry

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