Book Reading Update - Chapter 6 Fontana History of Chemistry, first thoughts

CHAPTER 6 FONTANA HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

I think this chapter will focus on discoveries of organic chemistry, in particular the organization and classification of the myriads of organic substances that have been discovered in the last several years.  Through this thorough organization and classification effort, I am guessing that they will come to a more refined and narrow definition of organic compounds beyond that as substances sourced from animals and vegetables.  It appears, so far, in the first few pages of the chapter that there emerged two primary schools of thought on how the classification is to be accomplished.