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Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings

This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...

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Materials of the Mind Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

Poskett James

ISBN: HB: 9780226626758, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe".Materials of the Mind" tells the story of how phrenology changed the wo...

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Spanish Disquiet The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226592268, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, historian Maria M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the "Spanish Disquiet" – a preoccupation with the perceived sho...

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Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

Powers John C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...

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Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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Acolytes of Nature Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850

Phillips Denise

ISBN: HB: 9780226667379, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "science" itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science...

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