Special Issue: Aesthetics and Visualization in Chemistry (1)
edited by Tami I. Spector & Joachim Schummer
 

Editorial (pp. 3-6)

Roald Hoffmann (Cornell University): 

Introductory Essay "Thoughts on Aesthetics and Visualization" (pp. 7-10)


Pierre Laszlo (France-USA): 

"Foundations of Chemical Aesthetics" (pp. 11-32)


Robert Root-Bernstein (Michigan State University): 

"Sensual Chemistry: Aesthetics as a Motivation for Research" (pp. 33-50)


Tami I. Spector (University of San Francisco): 

"The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease: The Relationship of AIDS to the Scientific Imagination" (pp. 51-71)


Joachim Schummer (Universities of South Carolina & Karlsruhe): 

"Aesthetics of Chemical Products: Materials, Molecules, and Molecular Models" (pp. 73-104)


James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): 

"Four Ways of Measuring the Distance between Alchemy and Contemporary Art" (pp. 105-118) 

Book Reviews

Marco Beretta: "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier", Canton, MA 2001  (pp. 119-120)
by Peter J.T. Morris


Frederic L. Holmes & Trevor H. Levere (eds.): "Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry", Cambridge MA, 2000 (pp. 120-123)

by Shawn B. Allin


Peter J.T. Morris (ed.): "From Classical to Modern Chemistry: The Instrumental Revolution", Cambridge 2002 (pp. 123-126)

by Daniel Rothbart
 

 Report

Teaching Philosophy of Chemistry at the University of Exeter (pp. 126-128)
by Glenn Jones and Claus Jacob