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Lecturer(s)
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Macháček Ivan, doc. PhDr. CSc.
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Kwiatkowska Alena, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Chemistry as a part of material and spiritual culture. Chemistry as a picture of contemporary culture (B. L. van der Waerden). 2. The problem of continuity of chemical knowledge and the birth of scientific chemistry. 3. Historiography of chemistry (17th century: G. Wallenius, H. Kunkel, G. Stahl; 18th century: T. Bergman, J. Ch. Wiegleb, J. F. Gmelin; 19th century: M. Berthelot). 4. Periodization of the history of chemistry by J. R. Partington (pre-alchemical, alchemical period, the period of unified chemistry, the period of quantitative laws, the current period). 5. Analysis of sources for the study of chemical knowledge of individual epochs. 6. Great figures and discoveries of alchemists (Zósimos of Panopol, Jabir, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, Paracelsus, J. B. van Helmont, G. E. Stahl, J. Juncker, I. Newton). 7. Preparation of the scientific revolution in chemistry (Johann Joachim Becher, Robert Boyle, Georg Ernst Stahl). 8. Creating the basics of scientific chemistry (Antoine Lavoisier, Johann Christian Wiegleb). 9. Creating the basics of scientific chemistry (John Dalton, Amadeo Avogadro, Jöns Jacob Berzelius). 10. Creating the basics of scientific chemistry (Justus Liebig, Friedrich Wöhler, Dmitry I. Mendeleev). 11. Successes of applied inorganic chemistry in the 19th century. 12. Synthetic organic chemistry in the 20th century. 13. Relation of chemistry to other natural sciences. Methods of contemporary chemistry.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Interactive lecture, Textual studies
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 26 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 26 hours per semester
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| to describe key events in world history |
| to list important philosophical trends and their representatives |
| to characterize the development of philosophical thinking in the context of historical development |
| to characterize the basic philosophical problems solved in various philosophical schools and their terminology |
| to list the world's leading chemists |
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| to analyze and interpret professional text in Czech and English |
| to process knowledge from a professional text into a comprehensive presentation |
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| to describe the origin of scientific chemistry |
| to explain significant chemical discoveries in the context of contemporary philosophy |
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| to interpret selected works of meaningful representatives of European chemistry |
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| Interactive lecture |
| Seminar |
| Textual studies |
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| Interactive lecture |
| Seminar |
| Textual studies |
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| Continuous assessment |
| Combined exam |
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| Continuous assessment |
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| Combined exam |
| Continuous assessment |
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Recommended literature
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Historie chemie. 1. vyd. Brno : Přírodovědecká fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1997. ISBN 80-210-1501-2.
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Anstey, P. The Philosophy of Robert Boyle. London, 2000.
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Bernard, J. The Story of Chemistry From Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission. 4th ed. New York, 1976.
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Budiš J. Historie chemie slovem a obrazem. MU Brno, 1995.
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Demjančuk, Nikolaj. O povaze vědy : věda v kulturních kontextech. 1. vyd. V Plzni : Západočeská univerzita, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7043-921-0.
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Karpenko, Vladimír. Alchymie : nauka mezi snem a skutečností. Vyd. 1. Praha : Academia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-200-1491-7.
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Lavoisier, A. Elements of Chemistry. New York, 1965.
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Paracelsus. Filosofie okultní. Praha : Trigon, 1990. ISBN 80-85320-05-3.
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Patterson, E. C. John Dalton and the Atomic Tudory. New York, 1970.
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Price, D. J. de Solla. Science Since Babylon. London, 1961.
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Schwartz, A. Truman. Chemistry in context : applying chemistry to society. 2nd ed. [New York] : McGraw-Hill, 1997. ISBN 0-697-29158-8.
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Solárová M. Vybrané kapitoly z historie chemie. Brno, PAIDO, 2000.
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