Research Catalog

Title

New narratives in eighteenth-century chemistry : contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21-23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California / edited by Lawrence M. Principe.

Author

Francis Bacon Workshop (1st : 2005 : Pasadena, Calif.)

Publication

Dordrecht : Springer, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Principe, Lawrence.

Description

xi, 200 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Archimedes ; v. 18

Uniform Title

Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 18.

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Chemistry > History > 18th century > Congresses
• 30.01 history of the exact sciences
• Chemistry

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A revolution nobody noticed? Changes in early eighteenth-century chymistry [sic] / Lawrence M. Principe -- Georg Ernst Stahl's alchemical publications : anachronism, reading market, and a scientific lineage redifined / Kevin Chang -- Chemistry without principles : Herman Boerhaave on instruments and elements / John C. Powers -- Practicing chemistry after the Hippocratical manner : Hippocrates and the importance of chemistry for Boerhaave's medicine / Rina Knoeff -- Public lectures of chemistry in mid-eighteenth-century France / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Lehman -- Apothecary-chemists in eighteenth-century Germany / Ursula Klein -- The Aberdeen Agricola : chemical principles and practice in James Anderson's Georgics and geology / Matthew D. Eddy -- Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) : chemistry, medicine, and books in the French and Chemical revolutions / Trevor H. Levere -- Reflections : a likely story / Seymour Mauskopf.

ISBN

• 9781402062735
• 1402062737

OCLC

• ocn154712125
• 154712125
• SCSB-1455599

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library