Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution

It was in the seventeenth century that the need for corporate action in pursuit of the experimental philosophy was recognized with the beginnings of institutionalization in science. The practice of experimental chemistry in the Paris Academie des Sciences at the turn of the seventeenth century has been analysed by Ursula Klein.141 With a more theoretical emphasis, seventeenth-century chemical ideas and the ways in which they 

In the Royal Society, the prominence of Boyle, and later of Newton has tended to overshadow the scientific importance of other early Fellows, but among those whose contributions to the new science were far from inconsiderable Robert Hooke, the Society s first curator of experiments, cannot be ignored. A new critical account of 

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Golinski, Jan V. "Chemistry in the scientific revolution problems of languages and communications." In Reappraisals of the scientific revolution, eds. David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman, 367-396. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 1990. 

J. V. Golinski, Chemistry in the scientific revolution problems of language and communication , in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. S. Westman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990, pp. 367-396. 

Debus, Allen G. The Role of Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution. Lias 13, 1986, 139-150. 

Goetsch, lames Robert, Jr. 1995. Vico s Axioms. New Haven Yale University Press. Golinski, Jan. 1990. Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution Problems of Lan-... 

Kopp is the most prominent example of this view Kopp, Die Alchemie in alterer und neuerer Zeit, 158-84. See also Katrin Cura, "Die Alchemisten und das Gold Echte und falsche Alchemisten, ihre Laboratorien und Laboranten," Kultur > Technik 3 (1998) 34-41 and Bruce T. Moran, Distilling Knowledge Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 2005), 30. 

Bruce T. Moran s Distilling Knowledge Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (2005) has greatly expanded the place of alchemy in the history of science. Stanton J. Linden s The Alchemy Reader From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton (2003) offers the reader the original material with some helpful introductions. 

William R. Newman is Associate Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He has published The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber A Critical Edition, Translation and Study (Leiden Brill, 1991), and will soon publish Gehennical Fire The Lives of George Starkey, An Alchemist of Harvard in the Scientific Revolution with Harvard University Press. In addition, he has written numerous papers on the history of alchemy, and is engaged in a study of the general relationship between alchemy and the occult sciences. His current research also includes the development of corpuscular matter theory, the issue of continuity versus disjuncture in early modern science, and eighteenth-century chemistry before Lavoisier. 

We have come to think of progress in science as taking place through sharp changes in fundamental conceptions called scientific revolutions. The change need not be rapid, for the classic case of the scientific revolution encompasses nearly a century and a half between Copernicus and Newton. Unlike the example from astronomy, chemistry before its revolution in the eighteenth century had not found a theoretical structure at all comparable to the Ptolemaic system that had served astronomy so well and... 

Of all the well-known revolutions in the history of science, the chemical is perhaps the most dramatic. The rapidity with which Lavoisier s views superceded those of the phlogistic tradition of the previous century is in contrast with the century and a half between Copernicus and Newton that defines the scientific revolution. Only twenty years separate Lavoisier s first explorations of the chemistry of gases and the public capitulation of... 

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