Experiments, models, paper tools : cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century / Ursula Klein ; editors, Timothy Lenoir and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.

Cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2003], ©2003.

xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.

Semiotics of Berzelian chemical formulas -- Two cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century: a structural comparison -- Experiments on the periphery of plant chemistry -- Paper tools for the construction of interpretive models of chemical reactions -- Paper tools for the classification of organic substances -- Paper tools for modeling the constitution of organic compounds -- Dialectic of tools and goals -- Historical transformation process -- Paper tools.