Inventing chemistry [electronic resource] : Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts / John C. Powers.

Inventing chemistry [electronic resource] : Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts / John C. Powers.

9780226677620 (electronic bk.)
9780226677606
0226677605

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (viii, 260 pages).

QD15 .P69 2012eb

540.92

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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