Inventing chemistry [electronic resource] : Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts / John C. Powers.
2012
QD15 .P69 2012eb
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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
9780226677606
0226677605
Publication Details
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 260 p.)
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Medicine as a calling
Didactic chemistry in Leiden
The institutes of chemistry
Chemistry in the medical faculty
Instruments and the experimental method
Philosophical chemistry
From alchemy to chemistry
Boerhaave's legacy.
Didactic chemistry in Leiden
The institutes of chemistry
Chemistry in the medical faculty
Instruments and the experimental method
Philosophical chemistry
From alchemy to chemistry
Boerhaave's legacy.