TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chalmers,Alan F.
TI  - The scientist's atom and the philosopher's stone: how science succeeded and philosophy failed to gain knowledge of atoms 
SN  - 9789400705333
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dordrecht [Netehrlands], New York
PB  - Springer Verlag
KW  -  Atomic theory
KW  - History
KW  - Science - Methodology
KW  - Ciencia
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - Metodología
KW  - Ciència
KW  - Filosofia
KW  - Metodologia
N1  - Reprint. Originally published: Dordrecht : Springer, 2009. (Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 279); Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and indexes; Atomism : science or philosophy? -- Democritean atomism -- How does Epicurus's garden grow? -- Atomism in its ancient Greek perspective -- From the ancient Greeks to the dawn of science -- Atomism, experiment and the mechanical philosophy : the work of Robert Boyle -- Newton's atomism and its fate -- The emergence of modern chemistry with no debt to atomism -- Dalton's atomism and tis creative modification via chemical formulae -- From Avogadro to Cannizzaro : the old story -- Thermodynamics and the kinetic theory -- Experimental contact with molecules -- Experimental contact with electrons -- Atomism vindicated?
ER  -