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Teaching the history of chemistry
169 Journal of Molecular 0
Structure
15 (1972)
169-l 72
ElsevierScientificPublishingCompany, Amsterdam - Printedin The Netherlar.ds
Book reviews
of Chemistry,
by GEORGE B. KAUFFMAN, AkadCmiai Kiad6, Budapest, 1971, pp. 222, price E3.25. Teaching the History
edited
Published in this volume are the eighteen lectures delivered at the symposium on Teaching the History of Chemistry, which was held in San Francisco in April 1968. In addition, six papers are included written especially for this volume,which the author believes to be the first book to deal with this topic. As George Kauffman puts it %ontroversy could be said to be the keynote of the symposium” and from the papers it is plain that there is disagreement on a considerable number of questions-on the biographical approach, or on the coverage of modern chemistry rather than earlier chemistry, to mention only two examples. These differences which are warmly contested, do serve to point to the importance of establishing that it is vital to teach the history of chemistry in relation to the wide range of academic and human interests. The technical knowledge which is passed on must be seen in a universal framework if chemists are to work with the essential creative approach. Topics covered include the advantages
of teaching the history of chemistry;
problems involved in teaching the subject; actual courses in operation and the philosophies which should ideally form the basis of such courses. W. J. T.
Evaluated Kinetic Data for High Temperature Reactions, Volume I, Homogeneous Gas Phase Reactions of the Hz-O, Systems, by D. L. BAULCH, D. D. DRYSDALE, D. G. How
AND
A. C. LLOYD, Butterworths, London, 1972, pp. xif433,
price
ElO.00. This is the first of three volumes resulting from a project sponsored at the University of Leeds by the Office for Scientific and Technical Information. This project was designed to compile and critically assess the rate data, available in the literature up to June 1971, for selected elementary reactions of importance in the field of high temperature chemical kinetics. The present volume includes all the reactions in the original Leeds Reports, entitled “High Temperature Reaction Rate Data”, Nos. 2 and 3, but there has been extensive revising and updating of the latter and the inclusion of many more reactions. The format of the volume has
Structure
15 (1972)
169-l 72
ElsevierScientificPublishingCompany, Amsterdam - Printedin The Netherlar.ds
Book reviews
of Chemistry,
by GEORGE B. KAUFFMAN, AkadCmiai Kiad6, Budapest, 1971, pp. 222, price E3.25. Teaching the History
edited
Published in this volume are the eighteen lectures delivered at the symposium on Teaching the History of Chemistry, which was held in San Francisco in April 1968. In addition, six papers are included written especially for this volume,which the author believes to be the first book to deal with this topic. As George Kauffman puts it %ontroversy could be said to be the keynote of the symposium” and from the papers it is plain that there is disagreement on a considerable number of questions-on the biographical approach, or on the coverage of modern chemistry rather than earlier chemistry, to mention only two examples. These differences which are warmly contested, do serve to point to the importance of establishing that it is vital to teach the history of chemistry in relation to the wide range of academic and human interests. The technical knowledge which is passed on must be seen in a universal framework if chemists are to work with the essential creative approach. Topics covered include the advantages
of teaching the history of chemistry;
problems involved in teaching the subject; actual courses in operation and the philosophies which should ideally form the basis of such courses. W. J. T.
Evaluated Kinetic Data for High Temperature Reactions, Volume I, Homogeneous Gas Phase Reactions of the Hz-O, Systems, by D. L. BAULCH, D. D. DRYSDALE, D. G. How
AND
A. C. LLOYD, Butterworths, London, 1972, pp. xif433,
price
ElO.00. This is the first of three volumes resulting from a project sponsored at the University of Leeds by the Office for Scientific and Technical Information. This project was designed to compile and critically assess the rate data, available in the literature up to June 1971, for selected elementary reactions of importance in the field of high temperature chemical kinetics. The present volume includes all the reactions in the original Leeds Reports, entitled “High Temperature Reaction Rate Data”, Nos. 2 and 3, but there has been extensive revising and updating of the latter and the inclusion of many more reactions. The format of the volume has