A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain - Rilegato

Hamlin, C

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ISBN 10: 0750300426 ISBN 13: 9780750300421

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 1990

Riassunto

A Science of Impurity is the first detailed history of the mobilization of chemistry (and later bacteriology) to meet the public demand for good water. It also offers a perspective on understanding how modern physical sciences are tapped to ensure public good.
A Science of Impurity explores the social framework in which chemists came to work on problems of water quality, the strategies they used to study the environment, their conclusions and their role in dealing with a fearful public.
For historians of science, researchers and planners in the water industry.

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Contenuti:

Introduction. The most difficult operation in chemistry: the analysis of mineral waters. Water analysis and the hegemony of chemistry, 1800-40. London's water: the dress rehearsal of 1828. The 'hard water and animalculae sellers': analysis and politics in London, 1849-52. Nitrogen and nihilism, 1852-68. Edward Frankland: the analyst as activist. Frankland and the chemist, 1866-85. Water analysis and the working sanitarian. Counting the countless: the temptations of quantitative bacteriology, 1880-90. What's bacteriology for? Disenchantment and a new realism, 1890-98. Conclusion: What are experts for? Appendix. Index.

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xiii 342p hardback, blue dustjacket, as new

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• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0750300426
• ISBN 13: 9780750300421
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 281