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.
Author(s): Lawrence M. Principe
Series: Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 18
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 202
Tags: History of Science
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry....Pages 1-22
Georg Ernst Stahl's Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and A Scientific Lineage Redefined....Pages 23-43
Chemistry without Principles: Herman Boerhaave on Instruments and Elements....Pages 45-61
Practicing Chemistry “After the Hippocratical Manner”: Hippocrates and the Importance of Chemistry for Boerhaave's Medicine....Pages 63-76
Public Lectures of Chemistry in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France....Pages 77-96
Apothecary-Chemists in Eighteenth-Century Germany....Pages 97-137
The Aberdeen Agricola: Chemical Principles and Practice in James Anderson's Georgics and Geology....Pages 139-156
Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808): Chemistry, Medicine, and Books in the French and Chemical Revolutions....Pages 157-176
Refl ections: “A Likely Story”....Pages 177-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-200
