The aesthetics of molecular representation: From the empirical to the constitutive [Book Review]

Foundations of Chemistry 5 (3):215-236 (2003)
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This paper examines the negative response to Dalton’s atomic symbols by situating them in the context of the normative eighteenth-century representational system of affinity tables. Aesthetic analysis of the affinity tables reveals them as schema embedded with a potent functionalist empiricism. In contrast, the aesthetics of Dalton's symbols is associated with hypothetico-deductivism and alchemical iconicism.

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