Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Tag: Lavoisier

  • [Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)

    [Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)

    An early draft of deprecated chapter about alchemy, copied from Wikipedia to help me develop my own ideas…

  • [Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]

    [Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]

    The story of the atom is a long and complex one. Their existence was hypothesised largely because they were easy to imagine and even easier to mathematize – as easy as one, two, three! They were generally considered to be very small, solid and like billiard balls in their collisions. Some believed that they possessed…

  • [Old] Chapter 1: The Origins of Chemistry

    [Old] Chapter 1: The Origins of Chemistry

    The mysteries to be explored in this book largely fall under the subject matter of chemistry. Though I was not particularly talented at school or university in the practical art of chemistry, I have always been fascinated by its magical qualities. There is something deeply mysterious about it….

  • [Old] Chemistry [New Ch.7]

    [Old] Chemistry [New Ch.7]

    Late eighteenth century – Lavoisier’s quantitative chemistry – early nineteenth century developments – material world conception – ends mainstream vitalistic ideas…