Napoleons Buttons Book Report
This chemistry book report is focus on a book called “Napoleon's buttons: How 17 molecules changed history” by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson. The publisher of this book is Tarcher Putnam, the book was published in Canada on 2003 with 17 chapters (hey the number match the title of the book!) and a total of 378 pages. The genre of this book is nonfiction. “Napoleon's Buttons” contain a fascinating story of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly changed the course of history and continuing affect the world we live in today. It also reveal the astonishing chemical connection among some unrelated events, for example: Chemistry caused New Amsterdamers to be renamed New Yorkers and one little accident of detonating cotton apron in a minor housekeeping mishap lead to the development of modern explosives and the founding of the movie industry.
The book’s main thesis statement and author’s main point was all focus on how, what, and why the seventeen changed the course of history and still continue in effect. The author is trying to tell us that not only human interaction alters the history, but it also involved chemistry and science: 17 unique molecules. These molecules provided the foundation for early exploration, and made possible many voyages of discovery successful. Spurred advances in many different fields of study and great knowledge poured into the world by the discovery of these molecules; they determined the world we live in right now. Some great historical shifts can result from even a change as small as the position of an atom can lead to enormous differences in the properties of a substance. Like the failure of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, because of the button that French soldiers...
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I believe the author did achieve his purpose, his book perfectly explained what and how the seventeen molecules changed the course of history and continue affecting our world. He usually first describe the chemical properties and history of the molecules to us, then the author included images of the actual chemical setup of the molecule to ease the reader’s confusion. For me, I think the author should explain more about the chemical bonds and substance to the reader, because I get very confuse when I come across some difficult chemistry substances and term. However, the author's writing is informational, effective, and occasionally difficult. The strengths of this book is that it imply the information to the reader by giving details and description, it also display images that give visual assist to the point that it trying to apprise.
An Historiography Review of Napoleon failed invasion of Russia using Clausewitz and Theodore Evault Dodge books
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On April 1, 1855, he received his Bachelor’s Degree. Dmitri decided to keep a low-profile . A year later, on April 23, 1856 he received his Master’s Degree . Mendeleev decided to write a book called The Principles of Chemistry. He published it on August 1, 1861 . It was also presented here in a high school quality paperback edition . The publication was produced from a professional scan of an original edition of the book .
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...was really thought-provoking and insightful while being entertaining at the same time. This novel definitely changes the way I view these elements and provides some background information about these elements that affected the lives of many scientists. Personally, I really enjoyed reading this chapter as I got to read about a mad scientist in a real world sense. Even for someone who does not particularly enjoy nonfiction novels especially on chemistry, I thought it was quite enjoyable to read. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements is surely a novel that a high school student even with minimal background in Chemistry to read. This is certainly a book that will advance your knowledge on Chemistry by providing a quirky and satisfying experience through various tales and examples.
French Revolution brought a great number of great ideas, but ideas are not beneficial unless they are realized and stabilized. The man to stabilize the concepts of French Revolution was Napoleon Bonaparte. He started out as an Italian general and ended up being one of the greatest historical figures. First, Directors requested Napoleon's support while organizing a coup d'etat. Then, Bonaparte fought Britain in order to benefit France. Lastly, he was called to help creating a new constitution and ended up as the First Consul of France. At home, he ruled using flattery, but also he strongly resisted the opposition. Napoleon is a pro-revolutionist because he denied all the privileges of the aristocracy, created a new constitution, and also established the Napoleonic Code.
Napoleon returned to home to France with only about 10% of his Army still alive. He lost most of his soldiers during the Great White Death, which is one of the largest French disasters to date. Since all the coalition allies knew he was in trouble, they decided to follow him and take him out while he was down and burned out. This is when he decided to give himself up and be exiled to Elba with 1000 guards. Before he left though, he promised his men that he, “… would return when the flowers bloomed.” And that was a promise that Napoleon kept.
History is made up of causes and effects. The French Revolution began because of King Louis XVI’s unjust ways towards the 3rd Estate, which held the majority of the French population. Eventually, this absolute ruler was killed during the revolution’s Reign of Terror along with thousands of others. This caused France to revert to conservative ways. These soon were overthrown by a powerful man named Napoleon Bonaparte, who went on to become the emperor of France.
Levy, Joel. The Bedside Book Of Chemistry. Vol. 1. Millers Point: Pier 9, 2011. 34-84. 1 vols. Print.
There are many engines of change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the seventeenth century, you have the influences of scientific discoveries, the ideas of the Enlightenment, the richness of art, and the development of the European state systems. In the eighteenth century you find the crises of absolutism, the reforms of government, based on the new Enlightenment thinking, which resulted in both the American and French revolutions. For seventeenth century scientific discovers, you have several breakthroughs.
Napoleon’s whole world was shaped by the French Revolution. It was the time period in which he grew up and it is what ultimately shaped him as a person. From instilling new, modern government ideas to fighting for the rights of the people, Napoleon had been a direct product of the revolution. As he rose to power in 1799, we saw how he was tolerant of people’s beliefs and also believed in their equality, but also had acquired some other traits from the revolution.
In the following paper, an examination will be made of an imperative point in alchemical and chemical history, that being the abandonment of alchemy. Often when questioning the implementation of this decisive transformation, there is a conventional approach that sides with the idea of logic deriving from chemistry and not alchemy. The public often forgets about the advancements made in alchemy due to the forced shadow chemistry casts upon it. In light of events that took place between 1660 and 1770, an investigation will be made into the historical contents of that time. This can be accomplished by utilizing sources published from the University of Cambridge as well as sources analyzing events in which academic institutions publicly undermined
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, radical and controversial ideas were created in what would become a time period of great advances. The Scientific Revolution began with a spark of inspiration that spread a wild fire of ideas through Europe and America. The new radical ideas affected everything that had been established and proven through religious views. "The scientific revolution was more radical and innovative than any of the political revolutions of the seventeenth century."1 All of the advances that were made during this revolutionary time can be attributed to the founders of the Scientific Revolution.
The development of quantum mechanics in the 1920's and 1930's has revolutionized our understanding of the chemical bond. It has allowed chemists to advance from the simple picture that covalent and ionic bonding affords to a more complex model based on molecular orbital theory.