Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Christine Blondel

The essays in this volume consider the interplay of science and spectacle in eighteenth-century Europe, describing the variety of public demonstrations of science in sites ranging from academies and laboratories to shops and streets.

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment

Anders Lundgren

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.

Textbooks and Their Audiences, 1789-1939

Communicating Chemistry

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

A History of Chemistry

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.

Richard-Emmanuel Eastes

Ce livre, qui réunit les contributions d’une trentaine de spécialistes français et étrangers, présente en 21 chapitres l’état de la recherche actuelle dans tous les principaux domaines de la philosophie de la chimie, avec une forte composante d'histoire de la discipline. Il présente les concepts, les problèmes et les inquiétudes que les chimistes nous obligent à penser à travers leurs pratiques et réflexions quotidiennes, qu’elles soient académiques ou industrielles, et notamment sur les rapports de la chimie à la matérialité et à la société. L’originalité du livre tient à son organisation qui combine l’anthologie de textes clés – classiques ou modernes – avec des présentations synthétiques sur chaque thème abordé. Il s’adresse ainsi aux étudiants de licence et de master en philosophie comme en chimie, ainsi qu’aux enseignants, techniciens, ingénieurs et chercheurs en chimie. Sommaire : Introduction générale. Pourquoi une anthologie de philosophie de la chimie ? Inquiétudes identitaires – Un cachet épisthémologique – Une science philosophiquement engagée – Défis éthiques et sociétaux I. L'identité de la chimie Faire de la chimie – La question de l'alchimie – Identités de chimistes – Un territoire non assignable – L'avenir de la chimie II. Épistémologie Transporter la nature au laboratoire – Connaître par le faire – Théories et modèles – Nommer, écrire et classer III. Ontologie Matière, matières et matériaux – Substances et relations – Atomes, corps simples, éléments – Mixte et composé – Interfaces, surfaces, interactions IV. Éthique et société Promesses et désillusions – Les chimistes se responsabilises – Des responsabilités élargies – Chimie en société : vers une nouvelle identité

Philosophie de la chimie

William R. Newman

Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture,from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry andtwenty-first century biomimetics.

An Evolving Polarity

The Artificial and the Natural

Joachim Schummer

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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