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Each branch of science has its own ontology, its proper domain of investigation--its objects of inquiry. This fascinating collection of essays traces the development of this domain and the changes in its membership from the early days of chemistry as a scientific discipline in the 18th Century until today--and the effects the membership of this domain has had on the directions in which the science developed and grew. From Lavoisier and Loysel and their work on discovering the properties of glass, through the growth in the ideas of representation of materials; via discoveries of uranium and aromatic structures and the early days of stereo-chemistry to the later developments: the issues of the representation of the experimental atom, and the questions of the reality of transition states, the ever-shifting terrain of what was considered the proper investigative substance of chemistry and exactly how these objects were to be described and the roles they played in further investigations is covered by an international group of historians and philosophers of science, many with strong background specifically in chemistry. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
