Transmutations of Chymistry

Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale Des Sciences

AvLawrence M Principe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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 scientific body. By charting Homberg's remarkable life from Java to France's royal court, and his endeavor to create a comprehensive theory of chymistry (including alchemical transmutation), Lawrence M. Principe reveals the period's significance and reassesses its place in the broader sweep of the history of science.Principe, the leading authority on the subject, recounts how Homberg's radical vision promoted chymistry as the most powerful and reliable means of understanding the natural world. Homberg's work at the Academie and in collaboration with the future regent, Philippe II d'Orleans, as revealed by a wealth of newly uncovered documents, provides surprising new insights onto the broader changes chymistry underwent during and immediately after Homberg. A human, disciplinary, and institutional biography, The Transmutations of Chymistry significantly revises what was previously known about the contours of chymistry and scientific institutions in the early eighteenth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-09
Mått:160 x 226 x 36 mm
Vikt:726 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Synthesis
Antal sidor:504
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226700786

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Kemi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biografier inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books, most recently The Secrets of Alchemy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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"This clever book is a biography of a person—Wilhelm Homberg (1653–1715); an institution—the Académie Royale des Sciences; and a discipline—the biography of chymistry from 1670 to 1730. Lawrence M. Principe has thus accomplished the trifecta of intellectual history, using a significant but largely understudied individual to analyze an equally understudied period—the history of chymistry between Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier. . . . I highly recommend this work and congratulate Principe for his latest achievement."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A Merchant of the MarvelousChapter 2. A Batavian in ParisChapter 3. Essaying ChymistryChapter 4. A New Chymical LightChapter 5. Chrysopoeia at the Académie and the Palais RoyalChapter 6. Chymistry in Homberg’s Later Years: Practices, Promises, Poisons, and PrisonsChapter 7. Homberg’s LegacyEpilogue: Homberg and the Transmutations of Chymistry at the AcadémieNote on SourcesSources CitedIndex