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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Main Author: Powers, John C., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Series:Synthesis
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 study is Boerhaave & rsquo;s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave & rsquo;s early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa chemiae in 1732. Powers reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditio.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226677620
0226677621
1280126353
9781280126352

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