From Agreements to Images The Rhetorical Foundations of X-Ray Crystallography

• Published in: Assembling Arguments p. 43
• Main Author: Jonathan Buehl
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of South Carolina Press 20.01.2016

This chapter summarizes the state of scientific knowledge in 1912 for three sets of concepts: X-rays, crystal structure, and optics. This description provides important background for understanding the arguments that established X-ray diffraction crystallography as a viable practice, and it demonstr...