Chemistry began as the occult science of alchemy; in the 17th century it became a mechanical science; and about 1800 it began to be understood as a fundamental science. It was also seen as the experimental science "par excellence", as a useful science, a classifying science, and so on. This account of the course of the development of chemistry illuminates both its intellectual and institutional history. Among the author's many publications are "Norms and Elements" (1967), "The Nature of Science" (1977), "The Age of Science" (1986) and "A Companion to the Physical Sciences" (1989).
- ISBN10 0485113902
- ISBN13 9780485113907
- Publish Date 1 December 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English