From Atomos to Atom: The History of the Concept Atom

Contents
Introduction
Part One - The Concept Atom Before the Origin of the Physical Atomic Theory
	Chapter 1 - The Philosophy of Greece
		1 Introduction
		2 The Importance of Grecian Philosophy
		3 The First Grecian Philosophers
		4 Democritus
		5 The Theories of Anaxagoras and Empedocles
		6 Plato
		7 Aristotle
		8 Grecian Philosophy After Aristotle
	Chapter 2 - The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
		1 General Outline
		2 Aristotle\'s Doctrine of Minima in his Commentators
		3 Scaliger
		4 Atomism
		5 The Development of Practical Chemistry
	Chapter 3 - The Seventeenth Century
		1 The Special Importance of this Century
		2 Sennert
		3 Basso and van Goorle
		4 Gassendi
		5 Descartes
		6 Robert Boyle
		7 The Mechanics of the Seventeenth Century
		8 Review of the Seventeenth Century
Part Two - The Concept of Atom in Physical Science
	Chapter 4 - The Origin of the Physical Atomic Theory
		1 The Development Before Dalton
		2 Dalton\'s Atomic Theory
		3 First Development After Dalton
		5 Organic Chemistry
		6 The Kinetic Theory of Gases
		7 The Electromagnetic Light Theory
		8 The Electronic Theory
		9 The Development of the Periodic Table
		10 The Philosophic Background of the Atomic Theory Around 1900
	Chapter 5 - The Atomic Theory in the Twentieth Century
		1 The Atomic Model of Rutherford and Bohr
		2 The Dualistic Character of Matter
		3 Nuclear Physics
		4 The Philosophic Background of the Contemporaneous Atomic Theory
	Chapter 6 - Science of Nature, Philosophy, and Philosophy of Nature
		1 Introduction
		2 The Right of Philosophy to Exist as a Science in its Own Right
		3 The Importance of Ancient Philosophic Systems as Regards Natural Science and General Philosophy
		4 The Right to Existence of Natural Philosophy
		5 The Value of Greek Philosophy of Nature
		6 The Philosophic Background of the Science of Nature
		7 Recapitulation
	Chapter Seven - Epilogue
	Bibliography
	Index of Names
	Index of Subjects