Inventing Chemistry - Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

Klappentext Focuses on 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. This title reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions - including craft chemistry. Zusammenfassung Focuses on 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. This title reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions - including craft chemistry.

Product details

• Authors: John C. Powers
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2012
• EAN: 9780226677606
• ISBN: 978-0-226-67760-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Synthesis; Synthesis; Synthesis (CHUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, chemistry, History of Science