Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bruce T. MoranSeries:New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine #10Publish date:2006-09-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674022492ISBN-10:674022491UPC:9780674022492Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, ChemistrySize:8.22 x 8.34 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCWXJWX0GV
Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution
Alchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern science. Examining the ways alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700, he shows...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674022492ISBN-10:674022491UPC:9780674022492Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, ChemistrySize:8.22 x 8.34 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCWXJWX0GV
Moran, Bruce T.: - Bruce T. Moran is Professor of History, University of Nevada at Reno.
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