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Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)
Published in Hardcover by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (1901)
Author: Trevor Harvey Levere
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Terrific overview
The one-sentence review runs thus: anyone with an appreciation for science and/or history, particularly both, will enjoy this book.

The author, Trevor Levere, is obviously a consummate historian, with thorough knowledge of the workings of science and its development through the ages. Levere has a keen sense of the humanity and little ironies that make up the twists and turns of the shaping of the state of chemical knowledge at various times, and conveys them in a friendly, readable style. I found the discussion of the various approaches to gases and how knowledge of the gas laws came out out of them particularly interesting (and did you know Robert Boyle in his day was considered an "alchemist"?). The author is very good about zeroing in on the most fertile areas of discovery and expounding upon what came out of them.

There are only a couple of minor problems that don't have much impact on the overall flow of the book. One is that Faraday and electrochemistry were introduced rather abruptly, with no information about where charge-sign and current conventions came from. It was something I wanted to learn about, and felt it was rather conspicuously absent. The other is the final chapter, about 20th century chemical discoveries (DNA, buckyballs, yadda yadda), which seemed a bit meandering and aimless as a whole.

But overall, excellent, very accessible. Don't hesitate.

An excellent and highly recommended introduction
Transforming Matter: A History Of Chemistry From Alchemy To The Buckyball is a college-level discourse on the history of chemistry and will serve as a fine basic introduction for any studying the history of science as a whole. Chapters begin with early alchemy to survey the rise of theories about the elements, the creation of classification systems, and relationships between scientific method and practices. An excellent and highly recommended introduction.


Affinity and matter: elements of chemical philosophy, 1800-1865
Published in Unknown Binding by Clarendon Press ()
Author: Trevor Harvey Levere
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Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society 1770-1878 (Variorum Collected Studies, No 439)
Published in Hardcover by Variorum (1994)
Author: Trevor Harvey Levere
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A curious field-book; science & society in Canadian history
Published in Unknown Binding by Oxford University Press ()
Author: Trevor Harvey Levere
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Discussing Chemistry and Steam
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (15 July, 2002)
Authors: Gerald L'E Turner, Golinski Stewart, Larry Stewart, and Trevor Harvey Levere
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Editing Texts in the History of Science and Medicine: Papers Given at the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto,
Published in Hardcover by Garland Publishing (1982)
Author: Trevor Harvey Levere
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