The transmutations of chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences

"This book resurrects science history between Robert Boyle and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier by telling the story of a remarkable genius who devised an innovative, comprehensive, and experimentally based theory of alchemy/chemistry (called chymistry) that was widely celebrated and adopted both in h...

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1. Verfasser: Principe, Lawrence 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London <<The>> University of Chicago Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Synthesis
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Zusammenfassung:"This book resurrects science history between Robert Boyle and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier by telling the story of a remarkable genius who devised an innovative, comprehensive, and experimentally based theory of alchemy/chemistry (called chymistry) that was widely celebrated and adopted both in his own time and after. Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) is a bridge between traditions: he held an expansive vision for chymistry as a natural philosophical discipline while at the same time continued to pursue metallic transmutation, only lightly veiled in his official publications. In Lawrence M. Principe's hands, Holmberg's life and work, particularly at the Académie Royale, provide new insights on several of the significant changes that chymistry underwent during and immediately after his lifetime. This new biography radically revises what was previously known about the contours of chymistry and scientific institutions in the early eighteenth century"
Beschreibung:xv, 464 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780226700786

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