Osiris, Volume 29 - Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. This book offers a collection of essays that builds on these reappraisals and excavates the affinities between alchemy, chymistry, and chemistry from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

About the author

Matthew D. Eddy is a senior lecturer in the history of science and culture at Durham University. Seymour H. Mauskopf is professor emeritus of history at Duke University. William R. Newman is the Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University.

Summary

The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. This book offers a collection of essays that builds on these reappraisals and excavates the affinities between alchemy, chymistry, and chemistry from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew D. Eddy, Matthew D. Mauskopf Eddy, Matthew D Eddy
• Assisted by: Matthew D. Eddy (Editor), Eddy Matthew D. (Editor), Seymour H. Mauskopf (Editor), Mauskopf Seymour H. (Editor), William R. Newman (Editor), Newman William R. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2015
• EAN: 9780226158396
• ISBN: 978-0-226-15839-6
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Osiris; Osiris; OSIRIS OSR (CHUP); OSIRIS OSR
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, chemistry, History of Science