New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry

   • Lawrence M. Principe

   Pages 1-22

3. Georg Ernst Stahl's Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and A Scientific Lineage Redefined

   • Kevin Chang

   Pages 23-43

4. Chemistry without Principles: Herman Boerhaave on Instruments and Elements

   • John C. Powers

   Pages 45-61

5. Practicing Chemistry “After the Hippocratical Manner”: Hippocrates and the Importance of Chemistry for Boerhaave's Medicine

   • Rina Knoeff

   Pages 63-76

6. Public Lectures of Chemistry in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France

   • Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Christine Lehman

   Pages 77-96

7. Apothecary-Chemists in Eighteenth-Century Germany

   • Ursula Klein

   Pages 97-137

8. The Aberdeen Agricola: Chemical Principles and Practice in James Anderson's Georgics and Geology

   • Matthew D. Eddy

   Pages 139-156

9. Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808): Chemistry, Medicine, and Books in the French and Chemical Revolutions

   • Trevor H. Levere

   Pages 157-176

10. Refl ections: “A Likely Story”

    • Seymour Mauskopf

    Pages 177-193

11. Back Matter

    Pages 195-200

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The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and topics in an attempt to build a richer, fuller, more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include “late-phase” alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.

• Chemistry
• Eighteenth-Century
• History of Science
• alchemy
• education

From the reviews: “The book consists of nine papers, of which eight focus on topics, themes and subjects that have been neglected in the historiography to date … . It offers a manifesto for all those who believe that the eighteenth century has much more to tell us about the history of chemistry and, more broadly, of science than how to have a revolution and survive it. … it should be required reading for all historians of chemistry … .” (Georgette Taylor, Ambix, Vol. 56 (1), March, 2009)

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