Foundations of Newton''s Alchemy - Or,''the Hunting of the Greene Lyon''

Klappentext This book sets the foundations of Newton's alchemy in their historical context in Restoration England. Zusammenfassung This book sets the foundations of Newton's alchemy in their historical context in Restoration England. It is shown that alchemical modes of thought were quite strong in many of those who provided the dynamism for the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and that these modes of thought had important relationships with general movements for reform in the same period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Preface; 1. 'The Hunting of the Greene Lyon'; 2. Conceptual Background for Seventeenth-Century Alchemy; 3. Seventeenth-Century Alchemy; 4. Chemistry and Alchemy at Cambridge; 5. Newton's Earliest Alchemy: 1668-75; 6. Newton's Integration of Alchemy and Mechanism; Epilogue; Appendices; Selected Bibliographies; Index.

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• Authors: B. J. T. Dobbs, Betty J. Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.1983
• EAN: 9780521273817
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27381-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library; Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics