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The History of Valency
Leicester University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1971 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's printed and illustrated turquoise dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 385 pages
4 plates out of text with 12 black and white illustrations (complete), few text-figures 1st edition, 1971 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of plates, Preface, xii, Text, 373 pages - 1. The origins of valency : The historical background to the theory of valency - From radicals to valency - From types to valency - Niomenclature - Valency notation - The question of priority - 2. Early applications of valency : Valency and the classification of the elements - Valency and the theory of structure - Valency and stereochemistry - 3. Variations in valency : The problem of variable valency - Valency in unsaturated compounds - Valency in aromatic compounds - 4. Valency and electricity : The renaissance of electrochemistry - The recognition of electrovalency - Extensions of the electronic theory to non-electrolytes - The coming of wave mechanics - Some conclusions - Periodical publications consulted, Notes and references, index - cf : Histoire de la valence en chimie near fine copy, the dust-jacket is complete and near fine, few minor folding tracks on the top, inside is fine, no markings, a rather nice copy of the 1st edition, 1971
British Journal for the History of Science - Colin A. Russell - Yushi Ito - Steve Sturdy - Roland Bechmann
Reference : 26845
(1988)
British Journal for the History of Science - volume 21, part 3, n° 70 - September 1988
British Society for the History of Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback grand In-8 1 vol. - 117 pages
Contents, Chapitres : Colin A. Russell : Presidential address - Rude and disgraceful beginnings : a view of history of chemistry from the Nineteenth Century - Yushi Ito : Hooke 's Cyclic theory of the Earth in the context of 17th century England - Steve Sturdy : Biology as social theory : John Scott Haldane and physiological regulation - Roland Bechmann : About some technical sketches of Villard de Honnecourt 's manuscript, new light on deleted diagrams - book reviews, received working copy from Pierre Thuillier, many annotations at ink on Sturdy's article - few words handwritten on the cover
