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New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
Contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21-23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CaliforniaArchimedes, Band 18
171,19 € |
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Verlag: | Springer |
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Veröffentl.: | 14.09.2007 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781402062780 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 204 |
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<P>The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and topics in an attempt to build a richer, fuller, more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include “late-phase” alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.</P>
A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry.- Georg Ernst Stahl's Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and A Scientific Lineage Redefined.- Chemistry without Principles: Herman Boerhaave on Instruments and Elements.- Practicing Chemistry “After the Hippocratical Manner”: Hippocrates and the Importance of Chemistry for Boerhaave's Medicine.- Public Lectures of Chemistry in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France.- Apothecary-Chemists in Eighteenth-Century Germany.- The Aberdeen Agricola: Chemical Principles and Practice in James Anderson's Georgics and Geology.- Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808): Chemistry, Medicine, and Books in the French and Chemical Revolutions.- Refl ections: “A Likely Story”.
<P>The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and topics in an attempt to build a richer, fuller, more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include "late-phase" alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.</P>
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Aims for creating new narratives for understanding the period Provides studies and analyses of hitherto neglected features of the period Contains analyses and critiques of existing historiography of the period