Scottish Enlightenment

On the "chemical philosophy" of the Paracelsian tradition, see Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy Paracelsian Science andMedicine in the 16th and 17th Centuries, 2 vols. (New York Science History Publications, 1977). Also see Arthur Donovan, Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment The Doctrines and Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black (Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 1975). 

Donovan, Arthur. Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Doctrines and Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 1975. 

A. Donovan, The chemical revolution and the Enlightenment - and a proposal for the study of scientific change , in Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. P. Jones, Donald, Edinburgh, 1988, pp. 87-101. 

PHILOSOPHICAL CHEMISTRY IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT by A.L. Donovan. Copyright 1975. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, at the University Press, Cambridge. 

Fenby, D. V., Chemical Reactivity and Heat in the Eighteenth Century , in P. Jones (ed.), Philosophy and Science in the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh John Donald Publishers, 1988), pp. 67-86. 

Thackray, A. (1970). Atoms and Poiners. An Essaj on Newtonian Matter-Theorj and the Development of Chemistry. London 119, 184 Donovan, A.L. (1975). Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black. Edinburgh 31 Schofield, R.E. (1970b). Me-chanicism and Materialism. British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Eeason. New Jersey 211-212, 145 Shapiro, A.E. (1993). Fits, Passion and Paroxysms. Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton s Theories of Coloured Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection. Cambridge 224. 

W. H. Brock, The Fontana History of Chemistry, Fontana Press, London, 1992, pp. 74-127 A. L. Donovan, Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh University Press, 1976 J. Golinski, Chemistry in the Cambridge History of Science, v. 4, Science in the Eighteenth Century , ed R. Porter, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 

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