{"product_id":"molecular-world-isbn-9780262545549","title":"Molecular World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling and innovative account that reshapes our view of nineteenth-century chemistry, explaining a critical period in chemistry’s quest to understand and manipulate organic nature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to existing histories, theory drove chemistry’s remarkable nineteenth-century development. In \u003ci\u003eMolecular World\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine M. Jackson shows instead how novel experimental approaches combined with what she calls “laboratory reasoning” enabled chemists to bridge wet chemistry and abstract concepts and, in so doing, create the molecular world. Jackson introduces a series of practice-based breakthroughs that include chemistry’s move into lampworked glassware, the field’s turn to synthesis and subsequent struggles to characterize and differentiate the products of synthesis, and the gradual development of institutional chemical laboratories, an advance accelerated by synthesis and the dangers it introduced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJackson’s historical reassessment emerges from the investigation of alkaloids by German chemists Justus Liebig, August Wilhelm Hofmann, and Albert Ladenburg. Stymied in his own research, Liebig steered his student Hofmann into pioneering synthesis as a new investigative method. Hofmann’s practice-based laboratory reasoning produced a major theoretical advance, but he failed to make alkaloids. That landmark fell to Ladenburg, who turned to cutting-edge theory only after his successful synthesis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn telling the story of these scientists and their peers, Jackson reveals organic synthesis as the ground chemists stood upon to forge a new relationship between experiment and theory—with far-reaching consequences for chemistry as a discipline.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eArchival Sources xiii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Molecular World 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Analysis Mania 19\u003cbr\u003e2 Sure Reagent 49\u003cbr\u003e3 Glassware Revolution 77\u003cbr\u003e4 Capital Chemist 105\u003cbr\u003e5 Laboratory Reasoning 137\u003cbr\u003e6 Ammonia Type 161\u003cbr\u003e7 Chemical Identity Crisis 191\u003cbr\u003e8 Laboratory Landscape 225\u003cbr\u003e9 The Science of Synthesis 265\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Making Modern Chemistry 297\u003cbr\u003eNotes 311\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 397\u003cbr\u003eIndex 429“It will change the discussion of 19th century chemistry forever.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gary Patterson,\u003ci\u003e Bulletin for the History of Chemistry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“…many historians have stressed the role of theory in organic chemistry. But Catherine Jackson emphasizes experimental reasoning.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andrew Robinson, Nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jackson has written a history that takes into account not only instruments and experimental methods but also detailed theoretical chemical knowledge and even personal and institutional context. Many authors highlight the importance of practice in chemistry, but only a few can provide such a detailed look into laboratory reasoning that the readers can truly realize this importance for themselves.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sarah Hijmans, \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Careful, precise, and well documented in extensive notes and a rich bibliography, this book will be \u003cb\u003evaluable for decades to come.\"”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—CHOICE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“This book is for every chemist. Seeing how greats such as Liebig, Hofmann, and Ladenburg used experimentation and simple glassware to establish understanding at the molecular level should inspire new approaches to contemporary challenges.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eSam Gellman, Vilas Research Professor and Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Jackson’s work is a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e. Using new sources, innovative methods, and original arguments to reinterpret the rise of molecular chemistry, she forces us to rethink the meaning of standards, laboratories, and chemical theory.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMyles W. Jackson, Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton\u003c\/b\u003eCatherine M. 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