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Osiris, Volume 29: Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Matthew D. Eddy
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Description for Osiris, Volume 29: Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Paperback. The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. This book offers a collection of essays that builds on these reappraisals and excavates the affinities between alchemy, chymistry, and chemistry from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Editor(s): Eddy, Matthew D.; Mauskopf, Seymour H.; Newman, William R. Series: Osiris. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 173 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner of "chymistry." In a similar vein, the chemical revolution of the eighteenth century, with its focus on phlogiston and airs, has been expanded to include artisanal, medical, and industrial practices. This collection of essays builds on these reappraisals and excavates the affinities between alchemy, chymistry, and chemistry from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It reveals a rich world of theory and practice in which ... Read more
The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner of "chymistry." In a similar vein, the chemical revolution of the eighteenth century, with its focus on phlogiston and airs, has been expanded to include artisanal, medical, and industrial practices. This collection of essays builds on these reappraisals and excavates the affinities between alchemy, chymistry, and chemistry from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It reveals a rich world of theory and practice in which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Chicago Press Journals
Condition
New
Series
Osiris
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226158396
SKU
V9780226158396
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About Matthew D. Eddy
Matthew D. Eddy is a senior lecturer in the history of science and culture at Durham University. Seymour H. Mauskopf is professor emeritus of history at Duke University. William R. Newman is the Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University.
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