The Scientific Odyssey

Episode 3.27.3: Supplemental-Isaac Newton, Magic and Heresy

This week we look at Isaac Newton's work in the area of alchemy and examine his heretical religious views centered on the ancient variant doctrine of Arianism. 

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Newton's Representation of the Philosopher's Stone

 

 

 

Episode 2.14: Beyond Bohr

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In this episode, we discuss the contributions of Gilbert Newton Lewis, Irving Langmuir and Arnold Sommerfeld and push the Bohr Model of the Atom to the breaking point.

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1902 Notes From Gilbert Newton Lewis indicating Cubic Electron Structure

Lewis Bonding Diagrams

 

Gilbert Lewis

 

 

Episode 2.8: The Electrical Atom

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In this episode, developments in electrochemistry by Jons Jacob Berzelius, Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, Svante Arrhenius, Wilhelm Oswald, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Alfred Werner are discussed.

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Jacobus van 't Hoff

 

 

Wilhelm Oswald

 

 

Svante Arrhenius

 

Episode 2.7: The Periodic Atom

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A discussion of the development of the periodic table beginning with Prout's protyle and ending with Mendeleev.  Much of the material for this episode has been developed from Eric Scerri's, "The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance."  Persons discussed include William Prout, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Leopold Glemin, Max Joseph Pettenkofer, Ernst Lenssen, Alexander Emile Beguyer De Chancourtois, John Newlands, William Odling, Gustavus Hinrichs, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev.

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The Periodic Table of Elements

Three dimensional representation of De Chancourtois' Telluric Screw

Diagram of the Radial Period System of Gustav Hinrichs

Reproduction of Mendeleev's Table from his 1870 textbook on chemistry

Episode 2.6: The Chemical Atom

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Reflections on chemistry by Michel Eugene Chevreul on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

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Color Wheel developed by Cheveul.

Episode 2.5.1: We Three Chemists of the Enlightenment Are

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A discussion of Carl Scheele, Joseph Priestly, Antoine Lavoisier and the discovery of oxygen.

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Episode 2.5: The First Chemical Revolution

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An examination of the work in pneumatic chemistry from Black to Lavoisier that establishes chemistry as an fully experimental science.  A discussion of the rise and fall of the phlogiston hypothesis as a scientific case study is included.  Figures discussed include Joseph Black, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestly, Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier.

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Episode 2.3.1: Supplemental-Jabir ibn Hayyan and the Foundations of Arabic Chemistry

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In this supplemental episode we look at the scholarly work of the first of the great Arabic "hakim", Jabir ibn Hayyan and the foundations of developing a scientific method.

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