Distilling Knowledge : Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution / Bruce T. Moran.
Alchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern scie...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Doing Alchemy
- 2. "That Pleasing Novelty": Alchemy in Artisan and Daily Life
- 3. Paracelsus and the "Paracelsians": Natural Relationships and Separation as Creation
- 4. Sites of Learning and the Language of Chemistry
- 5. Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Technology of Knowing
- 6. The Reality of Relationship
- Conclusion: Varieties of Experience in Reading the Book of Nature
- References
- Index