Inventing chemistry : Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts /

In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668 & ndash;1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Powers, John C., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Colección:Synthesis
Temas:
Boerhaave, Herman, > 1668-1738.
Boerhaave, Herman, > 1668-1738
1700-1799
Chemistry > History.
Chemistry > Study and teaching > Netherlands > Leiden > History > 18th century.
Medicine > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Chemistry > history
Chemistry > education
History of Medicine
History, 18th Century
Chimie > Histoire.
Chimie > Étude et enseignement > Pays-Bas > Leyde > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
history of medicine.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > General.
Medicine.
Chemistry.
Chemistry > Study and teaching.
Kemi > historia.
Kemi > studier och undervisning.
Netherlands
Netherlands > Leiden.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Medicine as a calling
  • Didactic chemistry in Leiden
  • The institutes of chemistry
  • Chemistry in the medical faculty
  • Instruments and the experimental method
  • Philosophical chemistry
  • From alchemy to chemistry
  • Boerhaave's legacy.

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