A Source Book in Chemistry, 1400-1900
A Source Book in Chemistry, 1400-1900

Author: Henry Marshall Leicester

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9780674822306

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A collection of important writings in the history of chemistry from 1400-1900, each with an introduction by the editors.

Justus Von Liebig
Justus Von Liebig

Author: William H. Brock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-06-20

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780521524735

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One of the founding fathers of organic chemistry and also a great teacher, the German scientist Justus von Liebig transformed scientific education, medical practice, and agriculture in Great Britain. William H. Brock's fresh interpretation of Liebig's stormy career shows how he moved chemistry into the sociopolitical marketplace, demonstrating its significance for society in food production, nutrition, and public health. Through his controversial ideas on artificial fertilizers and recycling, his theory of disease, and his stimulating suggestions concerning food and nutrition, he warned the world of the dangers of failing to recycle sewage or to replace soil nutrients. Liebig also played the role of an elder statesman of European science by commenting, via popular lectures and expansions of his readable Chemical Letters, on such issues as scientific methodology and materialism.