Titlebook: Creations of Fire; Chemistry’s Lively H Cathy Cobb,Harold Goldwhite Book 1995 Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite 1995 biochemistry.chemistry.e

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,„Neurotisch sein“ heißt nicht „krank sein“,es. But in truth chemists spend thousands of hours at the laboratory bench for every hour spent at awards banquets—if any—and it is more than instant gratification that keeps them at their labors. One motivation has always been and always will be pure love for the beauty of the system. Seeing and un

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Cournot-Bertrand mixed oligopolies,Beginning in 335 BCE, the events of 10 short years reshaped the Mediterranean world, seeded Greek culture from Egypt to the Indus, and reset the course of chemical history. The agent of this change was one man: the boyish, amiable, 23-year-old Alexander the soon-to-be-Great.

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Cournot-Bertrand mixed oligopolies,In the period 200 BCE-1000 CE ideas and traditions of the Greeks spread from Rome to Baghdad, and along the way the practical store of chemical knowledge grew and the theory changed. But at the end the theory arrived in recognizable form at Europe’s door.

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ca. 200 BCE–1000 CE: From Rome to BaghdadIn the period 200 BCE-1000 CE ideas and traditions of the Greeks spread from Rome to Baghdad, and along the way the practical store of chemical knowledge grew and the theory changed. But at the end the theory arrived in recognizable form at Europe’s door.

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ca. 1700: The Search for System and PhlogistonChemists of the 1700s were carried along with the spirit of the age: progress, Enlightenment, system. Unfortunately their initial attempt at system—phlogiston—was wrong, though it would make its own, upside-down, contribution: through the battles phlogiston inspired, the right system would eventually be found.

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ca. 100,000–300 BCE: Prehistoric Chemist to Chemical Philosopher—the Seedsd take exception to the title with which this chapter begins. Prehistoric implies before written record. If we define science as the systematic recording and interpretation of observed phenomena, then prehistory is prescience—”prehistoric chemist” is an erudite oxymoron—and we are forced to jump to the first millennium BCE for our story to begin.

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