{"product_id":"molecular-world-9780262545549","title":"Molecular World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 introduce","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400701124951,"sku":"9780262545549","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/molecular-world-9780262545549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}