New philosophers

Smith, Pamela H. The body of the artisan art and experience in the scientific revolution. Chicago (IL) Univ of Chicago P, 2004. x, 367 p. ISBN 0-226-76399-4 Flanders — Artisanal world — South German cities — Artisanal epistemology — Body of the artisan — Artisanship, alchemy, and a vernacular science of matter — Dutch republic -- Legacy of Paracelsus practitioners and new philosophers — Institutionalization of the new philosophy — Conclusion toward a history of vernacular science... 

Brown, R. (1827). A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations. (Reprinted in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 358-837 (July-September 1828)). 

Glauber, J. R., A Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, Richard Coats,... 

German chemist who detected sodium sulfate (Glauber s salt, the enixum of Paracelsus) in water from a spring near Vienna and introduced its use into medicine. His Description of New Philosophical Furnaces contains methods for the preparation of pyroligneous acid and the mineral acids. 

At about the same time, Dr. Andrew Fyfe (1792-1861) of Edinburgh detected iodine in several species of Fucus, in a species of conferva, and in the common sponge of the shops, and published a paper on it in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (10S). After serving as assistant to Professor Hope, he gave private lectures on chemistry and pharmacy at Edinburgh. From 1844 until his death in 1861 he occupied die chair of chemistry at die University of Aberdeen (109). 

This volume is the initial effort arising out of the application of a new philosophical approach being adopted in preparing Advances in Clinical Chemistry. 

Additional considerations are necessary when the control structure of reactors is to be determined. Reactors are usually highly nonlinear and poorly modeled. Therefore, approaches like those discussed previously are rarely suitable. Exact, offset-free control of all relevant reactor variables is neither possible nor necessary. Usually, keeping the variables in a certain operating range is sufficient. This is often accomplished in an indirect manner—for example, by eliminating as many disturbances as possible at their source. Shinnar [22] has proposed a new philosophical definition of the reactor control problem, a definition that has yet to be put on a quantitative basis and in algorithmic form. 

John Rudolph Glauber, Rurni novi philosophici uber Beschreibung einer Neu-erfundenen Distillir-Kunst (Amsterdam Johann Fabeln, 1646), translated as A Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, or Art of Distilling (London R. Coats, 1651) John French, The Art of Distillation (London R. Coats, 1650). 

Bhushan, Nalini, and Stuart M. Rosenfeld. Of Minds and Molecules New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. New York Oxford University Press, 2000. 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Of minds and molecules new philosophical perspectives on chemistry edited by Nalini Bhushan and Stuart Rosenfeld. p. cm. 

Edin. N. Phil. J. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Edinburgh. 

The list of topics could be easily extended further. Yet, I do not want to put my own research into the focus. If the chapter has a message, then it is to encourage philosophers of chemistry to think for their own, be skeptical about perennial problems, and discover new philosophical issues of chemistry. There are plenty of them waiting for... 

Oleander was reading a book of the new philosophical school, the critical or chemical school as he called it. Chemical because these philosophers of the absolute Nothing are the Liebigs of the invisible world, as he told Siegbert. Such as the chemical retort invents element after element,... 

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