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The Evolution of Chemical Knowledge: A Formal Setting for its Analysis
By (author) Jürgen Jost, By (author) Guillermo Restrepo
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Chemistry shapes and creates the disposition of the world's resources and provides novel substances for the welfare and hazard of our civilisation at an exponential rate. Can we model the evolution of chemical knowledge? This book not only provides a positive answer to the question, it provides the formal models and available data to model chemical knowledge as a complex dynamical system based on the mutual interaction of the social, semiotic and material systems of chemistry. These systems, which have evolved over the history, include the scientists and institutions supporting chemical knowledge (social system); theories, concepts and forms of communication (semiotic system) and the substances, reactions and technologies (material system) central for the chemical practice. These three systems, which have traditionally been mostly studied in isolation, are brought together in this book in a grand historical narrative, on the basis of comprehensive data sets and supplemented by appropriate tools for their formal analysis. We thereby develop a comprehensive picture of the evolution of chemistry, needed for better understanding the past, present and future of chemistry as a discipline. The interdisciplinary character of this book and its non-technical language make it an ideal complement to more traditional material in undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry, history of science and digital humanities.
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Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG
Published date | 6 Oct 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 122
Dimensions | 240 x 168 x 0mm (L x W x H)
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ISBN | 978-3-0311-0093-2
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BISAC | science / chemistry / general
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