2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Atomistic Interpretation of the Concept of "Mass" relevant to Faraday in the Nineteenth Century
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24700924
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Sociology/History of science and technology
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | ファラデー / デーヴィー / ベルセリウス / ベルトレ / 原子 / 質量 / 電気化学 / 19世紀 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, I investigated various unpublished historical materials of the natural philosophers in the first half of the 19th-century European countries, such as that of Faraday, Davy, Dalton, Berzelius and Berthollet, to analyze theoretical influences and criticisms among them, by focusing on the material theories underlying their electrochemical studies, for instance, Dalton's atomic theory or Boscovichian point-atomism. Based on these investigations, I have illustrated how the concept of "mass" was served as the fundamental property of matter in the electrochemical study of that time. It was different from the modern concept of mechanics.
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