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

By:

Powers, John C, 1968-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226677620
0226677621
1280126353
9781280126352

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inventing chemistry.DDC classification:

540.92 23

LOC classification:

QD15 .P69 2012eb

NLM classification:

WZ 100

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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