Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution /

Reacting to the perception that the break, early on in the scientific revolution, between alchemy and chemistry was clean and abrupt, Moran literately and engagingly recaps what was actually a slow process. Far from being the superstitious amalgam it is now considered, alchemy was genuine science be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moran, Bruce T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Colección:New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
Temas:
1600-1699
Chemistry > History.
Alchemy > History.
Science, Renaissance.
Alchemy.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Chemistry > history
Alchemy
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
Chimie > Histoire.
Alchimie > Histoire.
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Alchimie.
Médecine > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
alchemy.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > General.
SCIENCE > History.
Medicine
Chemistry
Science, Renaissance
Alchemie
Chemie
Chemie.
Alchemie.
Wetenschapsdynamica.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; 1. Doing Alchemy; 2. "That Pleasing Novelty":Alchemy in Artisan and Daily Life; 3. Paracelsus and the "Paracelsians": Natural Relationships and Separation as Creation; 4. Sites of Learning and the Language of Chemistry; 5. Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Technology of Knowing; 6. The Reality of Relationship; Conclusion: Varieties of Experience in Reading the Book of Nature; References; Index

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