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Volume 1, Number 1, March, 1999Eric R. Scerri Editorial 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5 Peter H. Plesch On the Distinctness of Chemistry . . . . 6--15 G. Krishna Vemulapalli and Henry Byerly Remnants of Reductionism . . . . . . . . 17--41 Alan L. Mackay From ``The Dialectics of Nature'' to the Inorganic Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56 Lee McIntyre The Emergence of the Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63 Robert J. Good Why are Chemists `Turned Off' by Philosophy of Science? . . . . . . . . . 65--95 Anonymous Call for papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Anonymous Instructions for authors . . . . . . . . 99--106
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--109 J. van Brakel On the Neglect of the Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--174 Robert M. Richman The Use of One-Electron Quantum Numbers to Describe Polyelectronic Systems . . . 173--181 Robert J. Good Why are Chemists `Turned Off' by Philosophy of Science? . . . . . . . . . 185--215 Bo G. Malmström Book Review: Athel Cornish-Bowden, ed., \booktitleEduard Buchner and the Growth of Biochemical Knowledge . . . . . . . . 217--219
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223 Pierre Laszlo Circulation of Concepts . . . . . . . . 225--238 Hrvoj VanCik Opus Magnum: An Outline for the Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . 239--254 Daniel Rothbart On the Relationship Between Instrument and Specimen in Chemical Research . . . 255--268 Roger Strand Towards a Useful Philosophy of Biochemistry: Sketches and Examples . . 269--292 Richard D. Harcourt The Atomic Shell-Structure Formula $ 2 n^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294 Eric R. Scerri A Critique of Atkins' Periodic Kingdom and Some Writings on Electronic Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--303 William R. Everdell Book Review: 25 Centuries of Atoms and Void. Pullman, Bernard, \booktitleThe Atom in the History of Human Thought, translated by Axel R. Reisinger . . . . 305--309 Anonymous Authors index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311 Anonymous Volume contents . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Davis Baird Encapsulating Knowledge: The Direct Reading Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . 5--46 John G. McEvoy In Search of the Chemical Revolution: Interpretive Strategies in the History of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--73 Robert K. Nesbet Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 75--76 Eric Scerri Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78 Jeffry L. Ramsey Book Review: Joachim Schummer, \booktitleRealismus und Chemie: Philosophische Untersuchungen der Wissenschaft von den Stoffen . . . . . . 79--84
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98 F. Michael Akeroyd The Foundations of Modern Organic Chemistry: The Rise of the Highes and Ingold Theory from 1930--1942 . . . . . 99--125 Paul Needham Atomic Notation and Atomistic Hypotheses Translated by Paul Needham . . . . . . . 127--180 Jack Morrel Book Review: D. M. Knight and H. Kragh (eds.): \booktitleThe Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789--1914 . . . . . . . . . 181--185 Anonymous Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194 Theodor Benfey Reflections on the Philosophy of Chemistry and a Rallying Call for Our Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205 Jeffrey Kovac Professionalism and Ethics in Chemistry 207--219 R. Bruce King The Role of Mathematics in the Experimental/Theoretical/Computational Trichotomy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . 221--236 P. H. A. Sneath Numerical Classification of the Chemical Elements and Its Relation to the Periodic System . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--263 Anonymous Authors Index Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . 265--265 Anonymous Contents of Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5 Ursula Klein Berzelian Formulas as Paper Tools in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry . . . 7--32 Niall Shanks Modeling Biological Systems: The Belousov--Zhabotinsky Reaction . . . . . 33--53 Michael Chayut From the Periphery: the genesis of Eugene P. Wigner's application of group theory to quantum mechanics . . . . . . 55--78 Stathis Psillos Studies in Scientific Realism . . . . . 79--86 Anonymous The International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry . . . . . . . . 87--88 Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 89--96
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 8 --- Special Issue on the Periodic System of the Elements . . . . 97--104 Carmen J. Giunta Argon and the Periodic System: the Piece that Would not Fit . . . . . . . . . . . 105--128 Helge Kragh The First Subatomic Explanations of the Periodic System . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143 V. N. Ostrovsky What and How Physics Contributes to Understanding the Periodic Law . . . . . 145--181 Eric R. Scerri and Jacob Edwards Bibilography of Secondary Sources on the Periodic System of the Chemical Elements 183--195
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199 Charles Seibert Charley Peirce's Head Start in Chemistry 201--226 S. Le Vent What is a Perfect Gas Mixture? . . . . . 227--239 Nikos Psarros The Lame and the Blind, or how much Physics does Chemistry Need? . . . . . . 241--249 J. van Brakel The World: An Unruly Mess . . . . . . . 251--262 Jeffry L. Ramsey Hegel's Philosophy of Nature . . . . . . 263--268 Pierre Laszlo A Sketch of a Program . . . . . . . . . 269--271 Anonymous Authors Index Volume 3 . . . . . . . . . 273--273 Anonymous Contents of Volume 3 . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Klaus Hentschel Why Not One More Imponderable? John William Draper's Tithonic Rays . . . . . 5--59 Robert C. Kerber Markovnikov's Rule in History and Pedagogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--72 Mary Jo Nye Book Review: Nalini Bhushan and Stuart Rosenfeld, eds: \booktitleOf Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry . . . . . . . 73--77 Harry E. Pence Book Review: A. Lundgren and B. Bensaude-Vincent, eds: \booktitleCommunicating Chemistry: Textbooks and their Audiences, 1789--1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81 Anonymous Call for Papers (1) . . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Anonymous Call for Papers (2) . . . . . . . . . . 84--84 Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 85--92
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 Claus Jacob Philosophy and Biochemistry: Research at the Interface between Chemistry and Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--125 Nathan M. Brooks Developing the Periodic Law: Mendeleev's Work During 1869--1871 . . . . . . . . . 127--147 Pedro Cintas On the Origin of Tetrahedral Carbon: A Case for Philosophy of Chemistry? . . . 149--161 Jeffrey Kovac Theoretical and Practical Reasoning in Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171 Fernando J. Luna Book Review: Pierre Laszlo: \booktitleMiroir de la Chimie . . . . . 173--177
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182 Pier Luigi Luisi Emergence in Chemistry: Chemistry as the Embodiment of Emergence . . . . . . . . 183--200 Mark Eberhart Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Design in the Twenty First Century . . . . . . 201--211 Rosária S. Justi and John K. Gilbert Philosophy of chemistry in university chemical education: The case of models and modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--240 John E. Bloor Book Review: Ronald J. Gillespie and Paul L. A. Popelier: \booktitleChemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry: From Lewis to Electron Densities . . . . . . 241--247 Anonymous Author Index Volume 4 . . . . . . . . . 249--249 Anonymous Contents of Volume 4 . . . . . . . . . . 251--252 Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 253--260
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 R. Vihalemm Are Laws of Nature and Scientific Theories Peculiar in Chemistry? Scrutinizing Mendeleev's Discovery . . . 7--22 Markus Reiher A Systems Theory for Chemistry . . . . . 23--41 Keith S. Taber The Atom in the Chemistry Curriculum: Fundamental Concept, Teaching Model or Epistemological Obstacle? . . . . . . . 43--84 Michael Akeroyd Predictions, Retrodictions and the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88 George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman Book Review: Carl Djerassi: \booktitleAn Immaculate Misconception: Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction . . . . . . . 89--91 Jeffry L. Ramsey U. Klein (ed.): Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--97 Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 99--106
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111 F. A. Paneth The epistemological status of the chemical concept of element . . . . . . 113--145 Markus Reiher The systems-theoretical view of chemical concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--163 John R. Christie and Maureen Christie Chemical Laws and Theories: A Response to Vihalemm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--174 Jeffry L. Ramsey Book Review: P. J. T. Morris and O. T. Benfey (eds.): \booktitleRobert Burns Woodward: Architect and Artist in the World of Molecules (History of Modern Chemical Sciences Series) . . . . . . . 175--178 habil. Klaus Hentschel The Instrumental Revolution in Chemistry 179--183
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188 Masanori Kaji Mendeleev's Discovery of the Periodic Law: The Origin and the Reception . . . 189--214 Tami I. Spector The Aesthetics of Molecular Representation: From the Empirical to the Constitutive . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--236 Hrvoj Vancik Philosophy of Chemistry and Limits of Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--247 Shawn B. Allin Book Review: Cathy Cobb: \booktitleMagick, Mayhem, and Mavericks: The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252 Paul Needham Book Review: Maureen Christie: \booktitleThe Ozone Layer. A Philosophy of Science Perspective . . . . . . . . . 253--261 Anonymous Author Index Volume 5 . . . . . . . . . 263--263 Anonymous Contents of Volume 5 . . . . . . . . . . 265--266 Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 267--273
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Nalini Bhushan Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--9 Roald Hoffmann Theoretical Chemistry . . . . . . . . . 11--11 Andrea I. Woody Telltale Signs: What Common Explanatory Strategies in Chemistry Reveal about Explanation Itself . . . . . . . . . . . 13--43 Stephen J. Weininger Response to ``Telltale Signs: What Common Explanatory Strategies in Chemistry Reveal About Explanation Itself'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48 Heather Douglas Prediction, Explanation, and Dioxin Biochemistry: Science in Public Policy 49--63 Kenneth B. Wiberg Strain, Structure, Stability and Reactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--80 Jeffry L. Ramsey Straining to Explain Strain and Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91 Eric R. Scerri Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum chemistry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--116 Bretislav Friedrich \ldots hasn't it? A commentary on Eric Scerri's Paper ``Has Quantum Mechanics Explained the Periodic Table?'' . . . . 117--132 Anonymous Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136 M. D. Eddy Elements, Principles and the Narrative of Affinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175 Pierre Laszlo Book Review: \booktitleMapping the Spectrum. Techniques of Visual Representation in Research and Teaching 177--189 José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Book Review: \booktitleLavoisier in Italia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--195 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
Joseph E. Earley Would Introductory Chemistry Courses Work Better with a New Philosophical Basis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--160 Eric R. Scerri Editorial 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--201 Robert J. Deltete and Anastasios Brenner Book Review: \booktitlePierre Duhem: Mixture and Chemical Combination and Related Essays. Edited and translated, with an Introduction, by Paul Needham 203--232 Paul Needham Mixture and Chemical Combination and Related Essays: A Response to Robert Deltete and Anastasios Brenner . . . . . 233--245 George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman Book Review: Fred Basolo: \booktitleFrom Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A Lifetime of Reactions . . . . . . . . . 247--250 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--251 Anonymous Author Index Volume 6 . . . . . . . . . 253--253 Anonymous Contents of Volume 6 . . . . . . . . . . 255--257 Anonymous Instructions for Authors . . . . . . . . 259--265
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 19 Special Issue on Philosophical Problems of Chemical Kinds 1--4 Rom Harré Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5 Rom Harré Chemical Kinds and Essences Revisited 7--30 Robin Findlay Hendry Lavoisier and Mendeleev on the Elements 31--48 Joseph Simonian The Paradoxes of Chemical Classification: Why `water is H$_2$O' is Not an Identity Statement . . . . . . . 49--56 J. van Brakel On the inventors of XYZ . . . . . . . . 57--84 Joseph E. Earley Why there is No Salt in the Sea . . . . 85--102 Paul Needham Mixtures and Modality . . . . . . . . . 103--118
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--123 Olimpia Lombardi and Martín Labarca The Ontological Autonomy of the Chemical World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148 Torsten Wilholt Explaining Models: Theoretical and Phenomenological Models and Their Role for the First Explanation of the Hydrogen Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . 149--169 Rein Vihalemm Chemistry and a Theoretical Model of Science: On the Occasion of a Recent Debate with the Christies . . . . . . . 171--182 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Fathi Habashi: \booktitleFrom Alchemy to Atomic Bombs: History of Chemistry, Metallurgy, and Civilization. Métallurgie Extractive Québec: 800 rue Alain #504, Sainte Foy, Québec, Canada G1X 4E7, 2002; distributed by Laval University Bookstore ``Zone'': Cité Universitaire, Sainte Foy, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4, viii + 357 pp, Can.\$70.00; U.S.\$50.00; plus postage (hardbound); ISBN 2-922686-00-0 . . . . 183--186 Robin Findlay Hendry Book Review: Jaap van Brakel: \booktitlePhilosophy of Chemistry: Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image Leuven, University Press, Leuven, 2000, xiv + 246 pp., ISBN 90-5867-063-5 187--197
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202 Michael Laing A Revised Periodic Table: With the Lanthanides Repositioned . . . . . . . . 203--233 V. N. Ostrovsky On Recent Discussion Concerning Quantum Justification of the Periodic Table of the Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239 Octavio Novaro Activity of Closed $d$-Shells in Noble Metal Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--268 M. Kidwai and R. Mohan Green Chemistry: An Innovative Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--287 A. T. Balaban Reflections About Mathematical Chemistry 289--306 A. Korobov Simple Chemical Reactions in the Solid State: Towards Elaborating a Conception 307--314 Carmen Giunta Book Review: Michael D. Gordin: \booktitleA Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books, New York, 2004, 364 + xx pp., ISBN 0-465-02775-X, \$30} . . 315--319 Harry E. Pence Book Review: Mark Albert: \booktitleGalen's Lectures: A Novel About Chemistry, Xlibris Corporation, 2000, 493 pp. (ISBN 0-7388-4196-X) . . . 321--324 Anonymous Author Index Volume 7 . . . . . . . . . 325--325 Anonymous Contents of Volume 7 . . . . . . . . . . 327--329 Anonymous Instructions For Authors . . . . . . . . 331--337
Eric Scerri Editorial 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Ross L. Stein A Process Theory of Enzyme Catalytic Power- the Interplay of Science and Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29 Lawrence J. Sacks Concerning the Position of Hydrogen in the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35 Shant Shahbazian and Mansour Zahedi The Role of Observables and Non-observables in Chemistry: A Critique of Chemical Language . . . . . . . . . . 37--52 Joachim Schummer Gestalt Switch in Molecular Image Perception: The Aesthetic Origin of Molecular Nanotechnology in Supramolecular Chemistry . . . . . . . . 53--72 Paul Needham Ontological Reduction: a Comment on Lombardi and Labarca . . . . . . . . . . 73--80 Olimpia Lombardi and Martín Labarca The ontological autonomy of the chemical world: a response to Needham . . . . . . 81--92
Eric Scerri Editorial 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95 Jay A. Labinger Organized Skepticism, Na\"\ive Methodism, and Other-isms . . . . . . . 97--110 Donald J. Wink Connections Between Pedagogical and Epistemological Constructivism: Questions for Teaching and Research in Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--151 Kevin C. de Berg The Status of Constructivism in Chemical Education Research and Its Relationship to the Teaching and Learning of the Concept of Idealization in Chemistry . . 153--176 Liberato Cardellini The Foundations of Radical Constructivism: An Interview with Ernst von Glasersfeld . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187 Keith S. Taber Constructivism's New Clothes: The Trivial, the Contingent, and a Progressive Research Programme into the Learning of Science . . . . . . . . . . 189--219
Eric Scerri Editorial 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223 M. F. Sharlow Chemical elements and the problem of universals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--242 Leslie S. Forster Chromium Photophysics- A Prototypical Case History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254 R. J. Snooks Another scientific practice separating chemistry from physics: thought experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--270 Joseph E. Earley, Sr. Some Philosophical Influences on Ilya Prigogine's Statistical Mechanics . . . 271--283 Eric R. Scerri Commentary on Allen & Knight's Response to the Löwdin Challenge . . . . . . . . . 285--292 John E. Bloor and W. H. Eugen Schwarz Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--303 R. B. King and D. H. Rouvray Response of D. H. Rouvray and R. B. King, Editors of the Book \booktitleThe Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century 305--306 R. Pagni Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 R. J. Deltete Wilhelm Ostwald's Energetics 1: Origins and Motivations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--56 Claus Jacob The closure of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Exeter --- An insider's view . . . . . . . . . 57--64 Leo Näpinen The need for the historical understanding of nature in physics and chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--84 Shant Shahbazian and Mansour Zahedi Letter to the Editor: The concept of chemical bond- some like it fuzzy but others concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95 Carmen J. Giunta Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100 Janet D. Stemwedel Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--117 Geoff Rayner-Canham and Megan Oldford The chemical `Knight's Move' relationship: what is its significance? 119--125 Michael Laing Where to put hydrogen in a periodic table? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 W. H. Eugen Schwarz Recommended Questions on the Road towards a Scientific Explanation of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements with the Help of the Concepts of Quantum Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--188 Guillermo Restrepo and Leonardo Pachón Mathematical Aspects of the Periodic Law 189--214 G. W. Rayner-Canham Book Review: Eric R. Scerri, \booktitleThe Periodic Table: its Story and its Significance . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
Eric Scerri Editorial 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220 Maurice R. Kibler From the Mendeleev periodic table to particle physics and back to the periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234 Philip J. Stewart A century on from Dmitrii Mendeleev: tables and spirals, noble gases and Nobel prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--245 Sibel Erduran Breaking the law: promoting domain-specificity in chemical education in the context of arguing about the periodic law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--263 R. J. Deltete Wilhelm Ostwald's energetics 2: energetic theory and applications, part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--316 Klaus Ruthenberg Saving chemical phenomena outside the scientific community . . . . . . . . . . 317--320
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Octavio Novaro On the rightful place for He within the periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12 Geoff Rayner-Canham and Zheng Zheng Naming elements after scientists: an account of a controversy . . . . . . . . 13--18 Rom Harré Some Presuppositions in the Metaphysics of Chemical Reactions . . . . . . . . . 19--38 F. Michael Akeroyd Mechanistic Explanation versus Deductive-Nomological Explanation . . . 39--48 Micah Newman Chemical supervenience . . . . . . . . . 49--62 Ernesto Paparazzo Why take chemistry stoically? The case of Posidonius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--75
Eric Scerri Editorial 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78 Santiago Alvarez and Joaquim Sales and Miquel Seco On books and chemical elements . . . . . 79--100 Paul Hoyningen-Huene Thomas Kuhn and the chemical revolution 101--115 W. M. Goodwin Structural formulas and explanation in organic chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127 Liberato Cardellini The Views and Influence of Ernst von Glasersfeld: An Introduction . . . . . . 129--134 Hinne Hettema A note on Michael Weisberg's: challenges to the structural conception of chemical bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142
Eric Scerri Editorial 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143 Tami I. Spector ISPC 2007 editorial . . . . . . . . . . 145--146 Jerome A. Berson Fundamental theories and their empirical patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--156 Alan F. Chalmers Atom and aether in nineteenth-century physical science . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--166 G. K. Vemulapalli Theories of the chemical bond and its true nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176 W. M. Goodwin Implementation and innovation in total synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--186 Robert J. Deltete Wilhelm Ostwald's energetics 3: energetic theory and applications, part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--221
Eric Scerri Editorial 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Tami I. Spector ISPC 2007 second editorial . . . . . . . 3--5 N. Sukumar The chemist's concept of molecular structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--20 James Francis Salmon Emergence in evolution . . . . . . . . . 21--32 Pio García Discovery by serendipity: a new context for an old riddle . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42 Richard Martin Pagni The origin and development of the acidity function . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--50 Meredith Tromble The advent of chemical symbolism in the art of Sonya Rapoport . . . . . . . . . 51--60
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62 Tami I. Spector ISPC 2007 third editorial . . . . . . . 63--64 Joseph E. Earley, Sr. How chemistry shifts horizons: element, substance, and the essential . . . . . . 65--77 Klaus Ruthenberg Paneth, Kant, and the philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91 Rom Harré Trope theory and the ontology of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103 Richard M. Pagni The weak nuclear force, the chirality of atoms, and the origin of optically active molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--122 Geoff Rayner-Canham Isoelectronic series: a fundamental periodic property . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--133 Jozef Sima Oxidation number: issues of its determination and range . . . . . . . . 135--143 Hinne Hettema Explanation and theory formation in quantum chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 145--174 Robert K. DeKosky Book Review: William H. Brock: \booktitleWilliam Crookes (1832--1919) and the Commercialization of Science . . 175--180 Lee McIntyre Book Review: Eric Scerri: \booktitleCollected papers on philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182 Martín Labarca and Olimpia Lombardi Book Review: Klaus Ruthenberg and Jaap van Brakel (eds): \booktitleStuff. The nature of chemical substances . . . . . 183--186
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Philip J. Stewart Charles Janet: unrecognized genius of the periodic system . . . . . . . . . . 5--15 W. P. Griffith The group VIII platinum-group metals and the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25 M. J. Laing The question mark at uranium . . . . . . 27--30 Fathi Habashi Metals: typical and less typical, transition and inner transition . . . . 31--39 Emma Tobin Microstructuralism and macromolecules: the case of moonlighting proteins . . . 41--54 J. A. Linthorst An overview: origins and development of green chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68 Eric Scerri Explaining the periodic table, and the role of chemical triads . . . . . . . . 69--83 E. G. Marks and J. A. Marks Newlands revisited: a display of the periodicity of the chemical elements for chemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93
Eric Scerri Editorial 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96 K. Ruthenberg ISPC 2008 first editorial . . . . . . . 97--99 Rom Harré Causal concepts in chemical vernaculars 101--115 Michael Akeroyd The philosophical significance of Mendeleev's successful predictions of the properties of gallium and scandium 117--122 J. van Brakel Chemistry and physics: no need for metaphysical glue . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136 Jens Soentgen On the history and prehistory of CO$_2$ 137--148 Martín Labarca and Olimpia Lombardi Why orbitals do not exist? . . . . . . . 149--157 Olimpia Lombardi and Mario Castagnino Matters are not so clear on the physical side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--166
Eric Scerri Editorial 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169 Gordon T. Woods Mendeleev, the man and his matrix: Dmitri Mendeleev, aspects of his life and work: was he a somewhat fortunate man? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--186 Conal Boyce On the boundary between laboratory `givens' and laboratory `tangibles' . . 187--202 Jean-Pierre Llored Mereology and quantum chemistry: the approximation of molecular orbital . . . 203--221 Gary D. Patterson Les Atomes: a landmark book in chemistry 223--233 Pieter Thyssen Book Review: Eric R. Scerri: \booktitleSelected papers on the periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238 Nikos Psarros Book Review: Klaus Ruthenberg (ed): \booktitleFrantisek Wald: Essays 1891--1929, Wald Press, Prague, 2009, 231 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 Anonymous International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: summer symposium 2011 in Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Richard F. W. Bader On the non-existence of parallel universes in chemistry . . . . . . . . . 11--37 Eamonn F. Healy Heisenberg's chemical legacy: resonance and the chemical bond . . . . . . . . . 39--49 Gabor Pallo Early impact of quantum physics on chemistry: George Hevesy's work on rare earth elements and Michael Polanyi's absorption theory . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61 Rom Harré and Jean-Pierre Llored Mereologies as the grammars of chemical discourses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Michael Laing Book Review: Sam Kean: \booktitleThe disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Joseph E. Earley, Sr. Book Review: Alan Chalmers: \booktitleThe scientist's atom and the philosopher's stone: how science succeeded and philosophy failed to gain knowledge of atoms . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86 J. F. Ogilvie Is a molecular orbital measurable by means of tomographic imaging? . . . . . 87--91 Brian T. Sutcliffe and R. Guy Woolley A comment on ``Editorial 37'' . . . . . 93--95 Rein Vihalemm The autonomy of chemistry: old and new problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107 R. Garth Kidd Elements of the third kind and the spin-dependent chemical force . . . . . 109--119 Geoff Rayner-Canham Isodiagonality in the periodic table . . 121--129 Richard M. Pagni Do the solvolysis reactions of secondary substrates occur by the S$_N$1 or S$_N$2 mechanism: or something else? . . . . . 131--143 Jack E. Fergusson The history of the discovery of nuclear fission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--166 Sandra D. Hojniak Book Review: David E. Fisher: \booktitleMuch Ado about (Practically) Nothing. A History of the Noble Gases 167--169
Eric Scerri Editorial 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Ontological tensions in sixteenth and seventeenth century chemistry: between mechanism and vitalism . . . . . . . . . 173--186 Rom Harré Do explanation formats in elementary chemistry depend on agent causality? . . 187--200 Mi Gyung Kim From phlogiston to caloric: chemical ontologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--222 Geoff Rayner-Canham Relationships among the transition elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232 Guillermo Restrepo and José L. Villaveces Chemistry, a lingua philosophica . . . . 233--249 Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham Book Review: Anne-Marie Weidler Kubanek: \booktitleNothing less than an adventure: Ellen Gleditsch and her life in science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Alan Chalmers Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6 Ursula Klein Objects of inquiry in classical chemistry: material substances . . . . . 7--23 Wolfgang Lef\`evre Viewing chemistry through its ways of classifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36 Alan Chalmers Klein on the origin of the concept of chemical compound . . . . . . . . . . . 37--53 Robin Findlay Hendry Chemical substances and the limits of pluralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68 Eric R. Scerri What is an element? What is the periodic table? And what does quantum mechanics contribute to the question? . . . . . . 69--81 Jonathan Simon The production of purity as the production of knowledge . . . . . . . . 83--96 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jonathan Simon: \booktitleChemistry, the impure science . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98 George B. Kauffman Book Review: István Hargittai: \booktitleJudging Edward Teller: A closer look at one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101 Anonymous International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC) --- Summer Symposium 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104 Anonymous Third international conference on the periodic table, Cusco, Peru, 2012 . . . 105--106
Eric Scerri Editorial 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Gerald F. Thomas The emancipation of chemistry . . . . . 109--155 Roberto de Andrade Martins The rise of magnetochemistry from Ritter to Hurmuzescu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--182 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Kenneth J. Klabunde and Ryan M. Richards (Eds): \booktitleNanoscale materials in chemistry, 2nd edn . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Alexander Y. Grosberg and Alexei R. Khokhlov: \booktitleGiant molecules: here, there, and everywhere, 2nd edn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Bob B. He: \booktitleTwo-dimensional X-ray diffraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Eric Scerri Editorial 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190 Rom Harré Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--191 Klaus Ruthenberg and Rom Harré Philosophy of chemistry as intercultural philosophy: Jaap van Brakel . . . . . . 193--203 Olimpia Lombardi Prigogine and the many voices of nature 205--219 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino The ontological function of first-order and second-order corpuscles in the chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle: the redintegration of potassium nitrate . . 221--234 Joseph E. Earley, Sr. A neglected aspect of the puzzle of chemical structure: how history helps 235--243 Jean-Pierre Llored Emergence and quantum chemistry . . . . 245--274 Eric R. Scerri A critique of Weisberg's view on the periodic table and some speculations on the nature of classifications . . . . . 275--284
Eric Scerri Editorial 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Peter G. Nelson What is the mole? . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 Mark R. Leach Concerning electronegativity as a basic elemental property and why the periodic table is usually represented in its medium form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--29 Francis T. Marchese Periodicity, visualization, and design 31--55 Jozef Sima Redox reactions: inconsistencies in their description . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64 Lucía Lewowicz and Olimpia Lombardi Stuff versus individuals . . . . . . . . 65--77 Mustafa Sarikaya A view about the short histories of the mole and Avogadro's number . . . . . . . 79--91 Geoffrey Blumenthal Kuhn and the Chemical Revolution: a re-assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101 Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez The semantics of chemical education: constructivism, externalism and the language of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 103--116 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Richard P. Pohanish and Stanley A. Greene: \booktitleWiley guide to chemical incompatibilities, 3rd edn 117--117 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Bassam Z. Shakhashiri: \booktitleChemical demonstrations: a handbook for teachers of chemistry, Volume 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Thomas B. Rauchfuss, Editor-in-Chief: \booktitleInorganic Syntheses, Volume 35 . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Eric Scerri Editorial 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--123 Guillermo Restrepo Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 Rom Harré and Jean-Pierre Llored Molecules and mereology . . . . . . . . 127--144 Alan Rocke What did ``theory'' mean to nineteenth-century chemists? . . . . . . 145--156 José Antonio Chamizo Technochemistry: One of the chemists' ways of knowing . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170 Farzad Mahootian Paneth's epistemology of chemical elements in light of Kant's \booktitleOpus postumum . . . . . . . . 171--184 Guillermo Restrepo To mathematize, or not to mathematize chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197 Peter G. Nelson Periodicity in the formulae of carbonyls and the electronic basis of the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208 Amihud Gilead Shechtman's three question marks: possibility, impossibility, and quasicrystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--224 Alexandru Manafu Internal realism and the problem of ontological autonomy: a critical note on Lombardi and Labarca . . . . . . . . . . 225--228 Geoff Rayner-Canham Periodic patterns: the Group ($n$) and Group ($ n + 10$) linkage . . . . . . . 229--237 George B. Kauffman Book Review: George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert and G. K. Surya Prakash (eds): \booktitleBeyond oil and gas: the methanol economy, 2nd updated and enlarged edition . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Herbert W. Roesky and Dietmar K. Kennepohl (eds): \booktitleExperiments in green and sustainable chemistry . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Eric Scerri Editorial 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243 Chérif F. Matta Special issue: Philosophical aspects and implications of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) . . . . . . . 245--251 Richard F. W. Bader and Chérif F. Matta Atoms in molecules as non-overlapping, bounded, space-filling open quantum systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--276 Mark E. Eberhart and Travis E. Jones The two faces of chemistry: can they be reconciled? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--285 Shant Shahbazian Beyond the orthodox QTAIM: motivations, current status, prospects and challenges 287--302 N. Sukumar The atom in a molecule as a mereological construct in chemistry . . . . . . . . . 303--309 Hinne Hettema Austere quantum mechanics as a reductive basis for chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 311--326 Shant Shahbazian Comment on ``Austere quantum mechanics as a reductive basis for chemistry'' . . 327--334 Hinne Hettema QTAIM as a research programme: a reply to Shahbazian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--341
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Mauro Causá and Andreas Savin and Bernard Silvi Atoms and bonds in molecules and chemical explanations . . . . . . . . . 3--26 Roman F. Nalewajski Entropic concepts in electronic structure theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--62 Hamidreza Joypazadeh and Shant Shahbazian What does shape a topological atom? . . 63--75 Shant Shahbazian Letter to the editor: Are there ``really'' atoms in molecules? . . . . . 77--84
Eric Scerri Editorial 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86 Alejandro Ramírez-Solís and Octavio Novaro The first metals in Mendeleiev's table: further arguments to place He above Ne and not above Be . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91 Conal Boyce Using logic to define the Aufbau--Hund--Pauli relation: a guide to teaching orbitals as a single, natural, unfragmented rule-set . . . . . . . . . 93--106 Giovanni Villani Structured system in chemistry: comparison with mechanics and biology 107--123 Carlos Alberto Marques and Adélio A. S. C. Machado Environmental Sustainability: implications and limitations to Green Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--147 Amihud Gilead Pure possibilities and some striking scientific discoveries . . . . . . . . . 149--163 Paul Needham Nineteenth-century chemical theory: correction of a misunderstanding . . . . 165--167 Alan Rocke Response to a letter to the editor . . . 169--170 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Eric R. Scerri: \booktitleThe periodic table: a very short introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172 Eric Scerri Erratum to: Editorial 41 . . . . . . . . 173--173
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175 Raymundo Hernández and Octavio Novaro The first metals in Mendeleiev's Table: Part II. A new argument against the placement of hydrogen atop the alkali metal column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--180 Olimpia Lombardi Linking chemistry with physics: arguments and counterarguments . . . . . 181--192 Hinne Hettema Linking chemistry with physics: a reply to Lombardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200 Amihud Gilead Chain reactions, ``impossible'' reactions, and panenmentalist possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214 Juan Bautista Bengoetxea and Oliver Todt and José Luis Luján Similarity and representation in chemical knowledge practices . . . . . . 215--233 Naum S. Imyanitov Adequacy of the new formulation of the Periodic Law when fundamental variations occur in blocks and periods . . . . . . 235--247 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Ulf Lagerkvist: Erling Norrby (ed.): \booktitleThe periodic table and a missed Nobel Prize . . . . . 249--251 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Eric Scerri: \booktitleA tale of 7 elements . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256 George B. Kauffman Book Review: Eric Scerri (ed): \booktitle30-Second elements: the 50 most significant elements, each explained in half a minute . . . . . . . 257--258
Eric Scerri Editorial 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Juergen Heinrich Maar and Eder João Lenardão The Brazilian contribution of Alcindo Flores Cabral to the periodic classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22 William B. Jensen The positions of lanthanum (actinium) and lutetium (lawrencium) in the periodic table: an update . . . . . . . 23--31 Kevin Charles de Berg Foundations of and challenges to electrolyte chemistry . . . . . . . . . 33--48 Pio Garcia Computer simulations and experiments: in vivo-in vitro conditions in biochemistry 49--65 Francesco Di Giacomo On some characteristics of Marcus' work in the light of the history of science 67--78 Alexander Yu. Rulev Pegniochemistry as a new branch of the chemical science . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86 Gábor Palló Book Review: Jean-Pierre Llored (ed.): \booktitleThe philosophy of chemistry: practices, methodologies, and concepts 87--89
Eric Scerri Editorial 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92 Daniel Barragán Essentials of kinetics and thermodynamics for understanding chemical oscillations . . . . . . . . . 93--106 Giuliano Moretti The ''extent of reaction'': a powerful concept to study chemical transformations at the first-year general chemistry courses . . . . . . . 107--115 Rodolfo Gambini and Lucía Lewowicz and Jorge Pullin Quantum mechanics, strong emergence and ontological non-reducibility . . . . . . 117--127 Leonard M. Khalilov Symmetry, inertness and chirality in theory of chiral systems . . . . . . . . 129--135 Nicholas W. Best Lavoisier's ''Reflections on phlogiston'' I: against phlogiston theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151 Peter G. Nelson A modern version of Lewis's theory of valency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--162 Vijay M. Tangde Advances in hadronic chemistry and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--179
Eric Scerri Editorial 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181 Jean-Pierre Llored Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--185 Delphine Schaming and Hynd Remita Nanotechnology: from the ancient time to nowadays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--205 Brice Laurent Operations for a problem of existence: dealing with the ontological uncertainty of nano substances . . . . . . . . . . . 207--224 Stéphanie Lacour and Sacha Loeve and Brice Laurent and Virginie Albe Deliberating responsibility: a collective contribution by the C'Nano IdF Nanoscience & Society Office . . . . 225--245 Jan C. A. Boeyens Wave-mechanical model for chemistry . . 247--262 JudithAnn R. Hartman and Eric A. Nelson ``Do we need to memorize that?'' or cognitive science for chemists . . . . . 263--274 Michael Downward Symmetry and representation in a three dimensional space . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
Eric Scerri Editorial 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Nicholas W. Best Lavoisier's ''Reflections on phlogiston'' II: on the nature of heat 3--13 Peter G. Nelson Introducing the theory of relativity . . 15--19 Naum S. Imyanitov Dialectics and synergetics in chemistry. Periodic Table and oscillating reactions 21--56 Sadegh Salehzadeh and Farahnaz Maleki The $ 4 s $ and $ 3 d $ subshells: Which one fills first in progressing through the periodic table and which one fills first in any particular atom? . . . . . 57--65 Jozef Sima Structure-related melting and boiling points of inorganic compounds . . . . . 67--79 Jean-Pierre Llored Book Review: Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões: \booktitleNeither physics nor chemistry. A history of quantum chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84 Peter G. Nelson Erratum to: A modern version of Lewis's theory of valency . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Rom Harré Realism and the turn to practice . . . . 89--89 Rein Vihalemm Chemistry and the problem of pluralism in science: an analysis concerning philosophical and scientific disagreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Van Helmont's hybrid ontology and its influence on the chemical interpretation of spirit and ferment . . . . . . . . . 103--112 Peeter Müürsepp Chemistry as a practical science: Edward Caldin revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123 Jean-Pierre Llored and Stéphane Sarrade Connecting the philosophy of chemistry, green chemistry, and moral philosophy 125--152 Naum S. Imyanitov Spiral as the fundamental graphic representation of the Periodic Law. Blocks of elements as the autonomic parts of the Periodic System . . . . . . 153--173 George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman Ahmed H. Zewail: $4$D visualization of matter: recent collected works . . . . . 175--176
Eric Scerri Editorial 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178 Yona Siderer In memory of Professor Masanori Kaji (8 February 1956--18 July 2016) . . . . . . 179--181 Amihud Gilead Eka-elements as chemical pure possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--194 Mark Weinstein The periodic table and the model of emerging truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--212 Peeter Müürsepp Chemistry as a practical science (Edward Caldin Revisited) . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223 Sebastian Fortin and Olimpia Lombardi and Juan Camilo Martínez González Isomerism and decoherence . . . . . . . 225--240 Grant Fisher Diagnostics in computational organic chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
Eric Scerri Editorial 55 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Marina P. Banchetti-Robino Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Manuel DeLanda Realism and the history of chemistry . . 5--15 Grant Fisher Content, design, and representation in chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28 Robert Prentner Chemistry, context and the objects of thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41 Sebastian Fortin and Olimpia Lombardi and Juan Camilo Martínez González The relationship between chemistry and physics from the perspective of Bohmian mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--59 Klaus Ruthenberg and Juan Camilo Martínez González Electronegativity and its multiple faces: persistence and measurement . . . 61--75 Giovanni Villani Chemical perspective in the study of living beings: a systemic complexity approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 Roderick S. Black Book Review: Peter J. T. Morris: \booktitleThe Matter Factory: A History of the Chemistry Laboratory . . . . . . 93--94
Eric Scerri Editorial 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96 Elena Ghibaudi and Luigi Cerruti Chemical substance, material, product, goods, waste: a changing ontology . . . 97--123 Nuno Francisco and Carla Morais and João C. Paiva and Paula Gameiro A colourful bond between art and chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--138 Marko Vitas and Andrej Dobovisek On a quest of reverse translation . . . 139--155 José A. Chamizo The fifth chemical revolution: 1973--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--179
Eric Scerri Editorial 57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181 Marina P. Banchetti-Robino Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184 Mariana Córdoba and Alfio Zambon How to handle nanomaterials? The re-entry of individuals into the philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . 185--196 Hirofumi Ochiai Does a molecule have structure? . . . . 197--207 Vanessa A. Seifert An alternative approach to unifying chemistry with quantum mechanics . . . . 209--222 Yona Siderer Udagawa Youan's (1798--1846) translation of light and heat reactions in his book \booktitleKouso Seimika . . . . . . . . 223--240 Geoffrey Blumenthal and James Ladyman The development of problems within the phlogiston theories, 1766--1791 . . . . 241--280 K. Brad Wray A new philosophy of science from the history of arcane natural science . . . 281--285
Eric Scerri Editorial 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Le Grande O. Dolino Chemistry as a creative science . . . . 3--13 David A. Johnson and Peter G. Nelson Valencies of the lanthanides . . . . . . 15--27 David A. Johnson and Peter G. Nelson Erratum to: Valencies of the lanthanides 29--30 Dumitru Petru Iga Basic principles of the strategy concerning the elucidation of configuration of chiral centers of linear isomeric aldohexoses . . . . . . 31--41 Ray Hefferlin An allegory on molecular periodicity . . 43--49 Alfio Zambon A representation of the periodic system based on atomic-number triads . . . . . 51--74 Jeffrey I. Seeman Moving beyond insularity in the history, philosophy, and sociology of chemistry 75--86
Eric Scerri Editorial 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88 Giovanni Villani and Elena Ghibaudi and Luigi Cerruti The orbital: a pivotal concept in the relationship between chemistry and physics? A comment to the work by Fortin and coauthors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97 Peter Hodder The periodic table: revelation by quest rather than by revolution . . . . . . . 99--110 Philip J. Stewart Tetrahedral and spherical representations of the periodic system 111--120 Mark A. Murphy Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry and the history of the BHC Ibuprofen process invention and its Quality connection . . . . . . . . . . . 121--165
E. R. Scerri Editorial 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168 Geoffrey Blumenthal and James Ladyman Theory comparison and choice in chemistry, 1766--1791 . . . . . . . . . 169--189 Wojciech Grochala On the position of helium and neon in the Periodic Table of Elements . . . . . 191--207 K. Brad Wray The atomic number revolution in chemistry: a Kuhnian analysis . . . . . 209--217 Jeffrey I. Seeman From ``multiple simultaneous independent discoveries'' to the theory of ``multiple simultaneous independent errors'': a conduit in science . . . . . 219--249 Vladimir M. Petrusevski and Julijana Cvetkovi\'c On the `true position' of hydrogen in the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . 251--260 Sebastian Fortin and Olimpia Lombardi and Juan Camilo Martínez González Let us build better boats: an answer to Jeffrey Seeman's ``Moving beyond insularity in the history, philosophy, and sociology of chemistry'' . . . . . . 261--264 KelleyAnne Malinen and Chérif F. Matta ``Climate change'' and the ``butterfly effect'' in an eighteenth century monograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--268
Eric Scerri Editorial 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Philip J. Stewart Mendeleev's predictions: success and failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--9 José A. Chamizo About continuity and rupture in the history of chemistry: the fourth chemical revolution (1945--1966) . . . . 11--29 Juan Camilo Martínez González and Sebastian Fortin and Olimpia Lombardi Why molecular structure cannot be strictly reduced to quantum mechanics 31--45 David A. Johnson and Peter G. Nelson Correction to: Valencies of the lanthanides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48 Sebastian Fortin and Camilo Martinez Gonzalez and Alfio Zambon and Waldmir Araujo Neto Guest editorial: ISPC 2015 special issue 49--50 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino The function of microstructure in Boyle's chemical philosophy: `chymical atoms' and structural explanation . . . 51--59 Eric R. Scerri Five ideas in chemical education that must die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--69 Hernán Lucas Accorinti Incompatible models in chemistry: the case of electronegativity . . . . . . . 71--81 María Silvia Polzella and Penélope Lodeyro Re-evaluating semi-empirical computer simulations in quantum chemistry . . . . 83--95 Juan Camilo Martínez González The problem of optical isomerism and the interpretation of quantum mechanics . . 97--107 Roberto de Andrade Martins Émile Meyerson and mass conservation in chemical reactions: a priori expectations versus experimental tests 109--124 Jesus Alberto Jaimes Arriaga and Sebastian Fortin and Olimpia Lombardi A new chapter in the problem of the reduction of chemistry to physics: the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules . . 125--136
Eric Scerri Editorial 62 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138 K. Brad Wray What to make of Mendeleev's predictions? 139--143 Philip J. Stewart Getting it right is not equivalent to getting it wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146 Geoffrey Blumenthal Priestley's views on the composition of water and related airs . . . . . . . . . 147--178 Peter G. Nelson What is chemistry that I may teach it? 179--191 Runzhan Liu and Guoyong Mao and Ning Zhang Research of chemical elements and chemical bonds from the view of complex network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--206 Rosana del P. Suárez The network theory: a new language for speaking about chemical elements relations through stoichiometric binary compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220 Juan Quílez A historical/epistemological account of the foundation of the key ideas supporting chemical equilibrium theory 221--252
Eric Scerri Editorial 63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254 Naum S. Imyanitov Does the period table appear doubled? Two variants of division of elements into two subsets. Internal and secondary periodicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--284 Amihud Gilead Further light on the philosophical significance of Mackay's theoretical discovery of crystalline pure possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296 Raffaele Pisano and Abdelkader Anakkar and Emilio Marco Pellegrino and Maxime Nagels Thermodynamic foundations of physical chemistry: reversible processes and thermal equilibrium into the history . . 297--323 Peter G. Nelson Statistical mechanical interpretation of temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--331 Carlos Santana Mineral misbehavior: why mineralogists don't deal in natural kinds . . . . . . 333--343 Elijah St. Germain Giovanni Villani: Chemistry: A Systemic Complexity Science . . . . . . . . . . . 345--348
Eric Scerri Editorial 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Philip J. Stewart From telluric helix to telluric remix 3--14 Vanessa A. Seifert The role of idealisations in describing an isolated molecule . . . . . . . . . . 15--29 Mich\`ele Friend The beginnings of a formal language for conceptual analysis of processes in macro-chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42 Justin Price Model transfer and conceptual progress: tales from chemistry and biology . . . . 43--57 Filip A. A. Buyse Boyle, Spinoza and Glauber: on the philosophical redintegration of saltpeter ---a reply to Antonio Clericuzio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--76 Hirofumi Ochiai Overcoming skepticism about molecular structure by developing the concept of affordance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--86 Gareth R. Eaton Whom should we credit for the discovery of isotopes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98 Jerry Ray Dias Teaching of chemistry before and after the periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Chérif F. Matta and Olimpia Lombardi and Jesús Jaimes Arriaga Two-step emergence: the quantum theory of atoms in molecules as a bridge between quantum mechanics and molecular chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--129 Trevor H. Levere Pere Grapí: Inspiring air: a history of air-related science . . . . . . . . . . 131--133
Eric Scerri Editorial 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136 K. Brad Wray and Line Edslev Andersen Reporting the discovery of new chemical elements: working in different worlds, only 25 years apart . . . . . . . . . . 137--146 Haresh Lalvani $4$D-cubic lattice of chemical elements 147--194 Haresh Lalvani Correction to: $4$D-cubic lattice of chemical elements . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195 Chris Campbell and Karoliina Pulkkinen How Mendeleev issued his predictions: comment on Andrea Woody . . . . . . . . 197--215 René E. Vernon Organising the metals and nonmetals . . 217--233 Julio Antonio Gutiérrez Samanez Binódic periodic system: a mathematical approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--266 K. Hagino and Y. Maeno A nuclear periodic table . . . . . . . . 267--273 John Emsley Elements of chemistry . . . . . . . . . 275--277 Elena Ghibaudi and Luigi Cerruti and Giovanni Villani Structure, shape, topology: entangled concepts in molecular chemistry . . . . 279--307 Keith S. Taber Conceptual confusion in the chemistry curriculum: exemplifying the problematic nature of representing chemical concepts as target knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 309--334 Hiteshi Tandon and Tanmoy Chakraborty and Vandana Suhag A scale of atomic electronegativity in terms of atomic nucleophilicity index 335--346
Eric Scerri Editorial 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347 Elena Ghibaudi and Luigi Cerruti Guest editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--351 N. Sukumar Ontological status of time in chemistry 353--361 Gil Santos and Gabriel Vallejos and Davide Vecchi A relational-constructionist account of protein macrostructure and function . . 363--382 Giuseppina Gini The QSAR similarity principle in the deep learning era: Confirmation or revision? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--402 Klaus Ruthenberg and Ave Mets Chemistry is pluralistic . . . . . . . . 403--419 Antonino Drago A new definition of reduction between two scientific theories: no reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics . . . . . 421--445 Sarah Hijmans and Jean-Pierre Llored How to investigate the underpinnings of sciences? The case of the element chlorine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--456 Hirofumi Ochiai Understanding molecular structure requires constructive realism . . . . . 457--465 Gabriela García Zerecero Molecular models and scientific realism 467--476 Sergio Gabriele Maria Sereno Prediction, accommodation and the periodic table: a reappraisal . . . . . 477--488 Clevis Headley Philosophy, natural kinds, microstructuralism, and the (mis)use of chemical examples: intimacy versus integrity as orientations towards chemical practice . . . . . . . . . . . 489--500
Eric Scerri Editorial 67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Miguel Escribano-Cabeza Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G. W. Leibniz II . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16 Francesco Di Giacomo Early theoretical chemistry: Plato's chemistry in Timaeus . . . . . . . . . . 17--30 Amihud Gilead A comment about the meaning and significance of life in the light of generalized crystallography . . . . . . 31--40 Wojciech Grochala Watch the colors: or about qualitative thinking in chemistry . . . . . . . . . 41--58 Eamonn F. Healy Organic chemistry as representation . . 59--68 Peeter Müürsepp and Gulzhikhan Nurysheva and Aliya Ramazanova and Zhamilya Amirkulova Chemistry as the basic science . . . . . 69--83 Juan Quílez On the early thermodynamic and kinetic deductions of the equilibrium constant equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--103 Apostolos Syropoulos On vague chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113 Hub Zwart Revolutionary poetry and liquid crystal chemistry: Herman Gorter, Ada Prins and the interface between literature and science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--132 Eric R. Scerri Book Review: Charles S. McCaw: \booktitleOrbitals with applications in atomic spectra, 2nd edition . . . . . . 133--134
Eric Scerri Editorial 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136 Miguel Escribano-Cabeza Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G. W. Leibniz I . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--153 René E. Vernon The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table . . . . . . . . . 155--197 René E. Vernon Correction to: The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199 Yoshiteru Maeno and Kouichi Hagino and Takehiko Ishiguro Three related topics on the periodic tables of elements . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214 E. G. Marks and J. A. Marks Mendeleyev revisited . . . . . . . . . . 215--223 Ceth Lightfield Logics for algorithmic chemistries . . . 225--237 Geoffrey R. H. Neuss A problem with explaining the electron configuration of scandium . . . . . . . 239--245 Eric Scerri Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the $ 4 s $ and $ 3 d $ orbital conundrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--251 Kevin C. de Berg An analysis of the difficulties associated with determining that a reaction in chemical equilibrium is incomplete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--275 David Dunmur Liquid crystal chemistry and poetry . . 277--287 Alan Chalmers Review of Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, \booktitleThe chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle: mechanicism, chymical atoms and emergence. Pp. x + 196, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 289--291 Eric Scerri Book Review: Geoff Rayner-Canham: \booktitleThe periodic table: past present, and future . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
Eric Scerri Editorial 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298 Carlos Alberto Marques and Adelio A. S. C. Machado An integrated vision of the Green Chemistry evolution along 25 years . . . 299--328 Lee J. Silverberg What is an organic substance? . . . . . 329--336 Raffaele Pisano and Emilio Marco Pellegrino and Maxime Nagels Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth--twentieth centuries . . . . 337--378 Sebastian Fortin and Olimpia Lombardi Is the problem of molecular structure just the quantum measurement problem? 379--395 Peter G. Nelson A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--405 Erik Weber and Merel Lefevere and Kristian Gonzalez Barman Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms 407--429 Vladimir M. Petrusevski A brief comment on `Mendeleyev Revisited' by Marks & Marks (Foundations of Chemistry, \urlhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021-09398-4) 431--432 Keith S. Taber Making sense of a pedagogic text . . . . 433--457 Agustín Adúriz-Bravo Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry . . . . 459--463 Peter J. Ramberg Book Review: Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi, eds: \booktitleWhat is an element? A collection of essays by chemists, philosophers, historians, and educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--473
Eric Scerri Editorial 70 (the platinum issue) . . . 1--2 Peter G. Nelson Understanding entropy . . . . . . . . . 3--13 Yoji Hisamatsu and Kazuhiro Egashira and Yoshiteru Maeno Ogawa's nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--57 R. Pucci and G. G. N. Angilella Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions . . 59--71 Balakrishnan Viswanathan and Mohamed Shajahan Gulam Razul Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals . . . . . . 73--86 Nenad Raos Special theory of relativity in chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95 Margaret A. L. Blackie Knowledge building in chemistry education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111 Sérgio Luís da Silva The habit of the pipe: a layperson's view of the periodic table . . . . . . . 113--120 Alan Goodwin Chemistry: progress since 1860 --- reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt's \booktitleChemistry . . . . . 121--142 Edit Talpsepp Interview with Eric Scerri . . . . . . . 143--153 Peter Atkins Brick by brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Eric Scerri Editorial 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160 K. Brad Wray What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--170 Larissa Moreira Ferreira and Jean Pscheidt Weiss and Marcelo Lambach Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries 171--187 Naum S. Imyanitov Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions --- 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry 189--219 Ernesto Paparazzo Plato on chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 221--238 JudithAnn R. Hartman and Eric A. Nelson and Paul A. Kirschner Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science . . . . . . . 239--261 Smriti Sharma Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal . . . . . . . . 263--276 Nazila Farmani Anooshe and Aliyar Mousavi The case of Zinjafr in the medical and mineralogical texts of medieval Persia: a puzzle created in the absence of the concept of chemical elements . . . . . . 277--284 Eric R. Scerri In praise of triads . . . . . . . . . . 285--300 Jay Labinger Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--310
Eric Scerri Editorial 72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313 Savino Longo Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330 Naum S. Imyanitov Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity . . . 331--358 Praveen Kumar Sharma Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry 359--362 Jeffrey I. Seeman A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger's: \booktitleConnecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--373 Alfio Zambon Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--387 Eric R. Scerri Hasok Chang on the nature of acids . . . 389--404 Fiorela Alassia A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--422 Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--431
Eric Scerri Editorial 73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Balakrishnan Viswanathan and M. Shajahan Gulam Razul Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge . . . 5--28 Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements --- part 1 --- from antiquity till the end of 18th century 29--51 Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements --- part 1 --- from antiquity till the end of 18th century . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55 K. Brad Wray Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--66 Jordi Cat and Nicholas W. Best Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--99 Eric R. Scerri Interview with Olimpia Lombardi . . . . 101--117 G. M. Anderson Entropy and sign conventions . . . . . . 119--125 Jesus Alberto Jaimes Arriaga On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density 127--139 Hirofumi Ochiai Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules . . . . . . . . . . 141--149 Martín Pérgola and Lydia Galagovsky Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration . . . . . . . . . . 151--166 Clevis Headley Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities . . . . . . . . 167--187 Fiorela Alassia Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling . . . . . . . . . 189--206
Guoyong Mao and Runzhan Liu and Ning Zhang Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network . . . . . . 207--214 Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2 --- turbulent nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234 Pawe\l Mi\'skowiec Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 3 --- rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries . . . . . . . . . 235--251 Eric R. Scerri A commentary on Weisberg's critique of the `structural conception' of chemical bonding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264 Francesco Di Giacomo On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means . . . . . . 265--268 Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements . . . . . . . . . 269--283 Gareth R. Eaton Interpreting the bonding of B$_2$H$_6$ and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency . . . . . . . . . . 285--298 Dean J. Tantillo and Jeffrey I. Seeman On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry . . . . . . . . 299--320 Jeffrey I. Seeman Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--335 Robert T. Hanlon Book review of Paul Sen's, ``\booktitleEinstein's Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe'' ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6 337--338 Robert T. Hanlon Correction: Paul Sen's, ``\booktitleEinstein's Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe'' ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6 339--339
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342 Mich\`ele Indira Friend Editor's Note by Michele Friend . . . . 343--344 Hrvoj Vancik From complexity to systems . . . . . . . 345--358 Hirofumi Ochiai Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry? . . . . . . . 359--367 Mauricio Suárez and Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--380 Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry . . . . 381--391 Safia Bano A defense of placeholder essentialism 393--404 Ryan Miller Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: a case for Thomistic emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--417 Rr. Lis Permana Sari and Heru Pratomo and Isti Yunita and Sukisman Purtadi and Mahesh Narayan and Kristian Handoyo Sugiyarto Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material . . . . . . 419--437 Yachun Xu and Yichen Tong and Jiangyang Yuan Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet--Proust controversy and Dalton's resolution . . . . . . . . . . 439--455 Gareth R. Eaton Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in \booktitleFoundations of Chemistry October 6, 2022 . . . . . . 457--461 Marcin Krasnodebski An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry 463--484
Eric R. Scerri Editorial 76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Curt Wentrup Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals' alchemist and his secret recipes . . . . 3--13 René Vernon Hydrogen over helium: a philosophical position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--36 Alessio Rocci Celebrating the birth of De Donder's chemical affinity (1922--2022): from the uncompensated heat to his \em Ave Maria 37--73 K. Brad Wray Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 Balakrishnan Viswanathan and M. Shajahan Gulam Razul Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom 89--113 Maria Antonietta Carpentieri and Valentina Domenici Introducing UV-visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--139 Ernesto Estrada What is a mathematician doing \ldots in a chemistry class? . . . . . . . . . . . 141--166 Peter F. Lang Bond order and bond energies . . . . . . 167--177 Robert T. Hanlon Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs's maximum work equation . . . . . 179--189
Eric Scerri Editorial 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192 Klaus Ruthenberg Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity --- Protonism vs. Electronism 193--196 Gerd-Uwe Flechsig Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid--base concept? . . . . . . . . . . 197--202 Apostolos K. Gerontas ``Sharp of taste'': the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211 Klaus Ruthenberg Bifurcations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--224 Pieter Thyssen Are acids natural kinds? . . . . . . . . 225--253 Karina Aparecida de Freitas Dias de Souza and Paulo Alves Porto Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective . . . . 255--273 Mihalj Posa Connecting De Donder's equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290 Ricardo Vivas-Reyes Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--300 Kamna Sharma and Deepak Kumar Das and Saibal Ray Research status of the periodic table: a bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . 301--314 Mario Rodríguez Peña and José Ángel García Guerra The periodic spiral of elements . . . . 315--321