Thackray, Arnold

Thackray, Arnold. Atoms and Powers An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1970. 

Thackray, Arnold. John Dalton. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1972. A good scholarly biography. 

Thackray, Arnold. The Origin of Dalton s Chemical Atomic Theory Daltonian Doubts Resolved. Isis 57 (1966) 35-55. 

Thackray, Arnold, ed, 1998, Private Science Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Thackray, Arnold, and Robert K, Merton, 1972, On discipline building The paradoxes of George Sarton, Isis 63 473-475,... 

Tennyson, Alfred. Locksley HalT in The Harvard Classics. From Tennyson to Whitman. Volume III. Grolier Enterprise Corp., Danbury. 1989. Tennyson, Alfred. Ulysses in The Harvard Classics. From Tennyson to Whitman. Volume III. Grolier Enterprise Corp., Danbury. 1989. Thackray, Arnold. Atoms and Power. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1970. 

Thackray, Arnold. University-Industry Connections and Chemical Research An Historical Perspective. In University-Industry Research Relationships Selected Studies, 193-233. Washington, D.C. National Science Board, 1983. 

Thackray, Arnold, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, P. Thomas Carroll, and Robert Bud. Chemistry in America, 1876-1976 Historical Indicators. Dordrecht D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985. 

See Arnold Thackray, Atoms and Powers An Essay on Newtonian Matter Theory and the Development of Chemistry (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1970), and Robert E. Schofield, Mechanism and Materialism British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Reason (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1970). 

See Arnold Thackray, Atoms and Powers (Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 1970), especially Chapter Seven on Quantified Chemistry, 199-203. 

In offering my version of the origin of Daltons theory, I have generally followed the similarly titled account Leonard Nash, The Origin of Daltons Chemical Atomic Theory, Isis 47 (1956) 101-116, 2 Arnold Thackray, The Origin of Daltons Chemical Atomic Theory Daltonian Doubts Resolved, Isis 57 (1966) 35-55. 

Roscoe and Harden, A New VieWy 14-15. A useful anthology of Daltons unpublished papers and letters is Arnold Thackray, John Dalton Critical Assessments of His Life and Science (Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 1972). 

Thns, 2008 was perhaps an arbitrary year to celebrate 200 years of Dalton s theory, bnt as good a year as any. The Symposium Series volume appears in 2010, which is 200 years after the pnblication of Part 11 of Dalton s New System. Readers interested in learning more abont Dalton s life and work are directed to Arnold Thackray s 1972 volume which remains authoritative even after nearly fom decades (6). 

A. Thackray and M. Myers, Jnr., Arnold O. Beckman One Hundred Years of Excellence, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2000. 

A. Thackray and J. L. Sturchio, The education of an entrepreneur the early career of Arnold Beckman , in The Beckman Symposium on Biomedical Instrumentation, ed. C. M. Moberg, The Rockefeller University, New York, 1986, pp. 3-17. 

In the library of the University of Pennsylvania a display case for several years contained original copies of classic books of this third tradition together with a commentary by Arnold Thackray ... 

Thackray, A. 1981. Statement of the Hermetic Tradition. University of Pennsylvania, Courtesy of Arnold Thackray. 

Arnold Thackray illustrated the history of chemical journals, proposing to understand what is happening in the present by looking into the past. In every age, the amount of literature has seemed as if it is going to overwhelm people, Thackray said. Science has been about communication for the past 350 years, he continued. Both the science itself and the means of its communication are competitive enterprises, where the prize is to be first, he said. He talked about the origins of chemical journals, the rise of scientific societies, the idea of a world brain and journals after World War I. 

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