FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a completely delightful article by History Professor Theresa Levitt, at the University of Mississippi. It traces the roots of vitalism through to Pasteur’s work on the optical activity of tartrate crystals. The transition from vitalism, and the belief that molecules like urea could only be synthesized by the body, to synthetic chemistry was a paradigm shift of enormous proportions.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022