Inventing chemistry [electronic resource] : Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts / John C. Powers.
Powers, John C., 1968-
2012
QD15 .P69 2012eb
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Title Inventing chemistry [electronic resource] : Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts / John C. Powers.
Author Powers, John C., 1968-
ISBN 9780226677620 (electronic bk.)
9780226677606
0226677605
Publication Details Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 p.)
Call Number QD15 .P69 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 540.92
Summary In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), 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’s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave’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 traditions.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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