Distilling Knowledge Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution

Name: Distilling Knowledge Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution
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ISBN: 9780674022492

ISBN-10: 0674022491

ISBN-13: 9780674022492

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bruce T. Moran

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Alchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern science. Examining the ways alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700, he shows how these approaches influenced their respective practitioners' ideas about nature and shaped their inquiries into the workings of the natural world. His work sets up a dialogue between what historians have usually presented as separate spheres; here we see how alchemists and early chemists…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Bruce T. Moran is Professor of History, University of Nevada at Reno.



Introduction



Doing Alchemy



"That Pleasing Novelty": Alchemy in Artisan and Daily Life



Paracelsus and the "Paracelsians": Natural Relationships and Separation as Creation



Sites of Learning and the Language of Chemistry



Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Technology of Knowing



The Reality of Relationship


Conclusion: Varieties of Experience in Reading the Book of Nature


References


Index