This is the first account of the history of our understanding of, and ability to model, solidification microstructures. Its objective is to retrace the scientific steps made, from the earliest observations of the eighteenth century to our present-day understanding of dendrites and eutectics. Because of the abundance of information, especially that added during the present century, sub-division was essential: this being the first of three articles. They cover dendrites and cells from 1700 to 2000, and then from 2001 to 2015 and finally eutectics and peritectics from 1700 to 2015. The authors have striven always to identify the genesis of every advance made, being aware that such a compact history must leave many worthy contributions by the wayside; others will doubtless complete the history. This review shows how cross-fertilisation between theory and experiment, and basic and applied research led to both the posing and answering of challenging fundamental questions, thus rewarding society with beneficial results.

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金属和合金凝固微观结构建模的进展：1700年至2000年的树突和晶胞

这是对我们对凝固微结构的了解和建模能力的历史的第一个记录。其目的是追溯从18世纪最早的观察到我们对树突和共晶的当今理解所采取的科学步骤。由于信息的丰富，尤其是在本世纪增加的信息，细分是必不可少的：这是三篇文章的第一篇。它们涵盖了从1700年至2000年，然后是2001年至2015年，最后是从1700年至2015年的共晶和包晶的树突和细胞。作者们一直在努力确定每一个进展的起源，并意识到如此紧凑的历史必须留下许多值得一提的贡献；其他人无疑将完成历史。