Atomic Theory I: The Early Days, Visionlearning Vol.
Sorabji then takes up Zeno's paradoxes and the
atomic theory of time.
Topics covered in the 35 illustrated chapters include: standards for measurement, properties of matter, early
atomic theory and structure, chemical equations, solutions, chemical equilibrium, nuclear and organic chemistry, polymers, aldehydes and ketones, stereoisomerism, carbohydrates, enzymes, nutrition, bioenergetics, and metabolism.
In 1957 at Princeton University, Hugh Everett III proposed a radical way of dealing with some of the more perplexing aspects of
atomic theory.
In 1957 at Princeton University, Hugh Everett III proposed a radical new way of dealing with some of the more perplexing aspects of
atomic theory.
Essays of no more than three pages succinctly provide historical background, as well as descriptive text, about ideas ranging from
atomic theory to Zeno's paradox, More mundane, yet still provocative, topics are included, such as how airplanes fly and how polarized sunglasses work.
Although everyone "knows" that science must be publicly funded, everyone also knows that nearly all the great leaps of classical science - Newtonian physics, relativity,
atomic theory, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, genetics, and many others - occurred with no government aid whatever.
Lucretius, after all, writing in the first century BCE, used the epic meter for De Rerum Natura, six books of
atomic theory and Epicurean philosophy.
Robertson begins with a review of fundamental topics such as the periodic table,
atomic theory, and chemical reactions.
