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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Moran, Bruce T. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Collection:New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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