Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire
2009; Brill; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/157338209x433570
ISSN1573-3823
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
Resumo571 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009) 555-598 Bruce T. Moran, Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2007), pp. vi+344, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0 88135 395 7. How and when did chemistry emerge as a distinct field, its practitioners clearly iden- tifiable among the scores of alchemists, distillers, physicians, apothecaries, metalwork- ers and magicians also populating the marketplace for natural knowledge in early modern Europe? To answer this question, historians have long emphasized the emer- gence of early modern chemical textbooks, citing the German physician,
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