| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Synthesis
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| Contents |
Medicine as a calling -- Didactic chemistry in Leiden -- The institutes of chemistry -- Chemistry in the medical faculty -- Instruments and the experimental method -- Philosophical chemistry -- From alchemy to chemistry -- Boerhaave's legacy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668 & ndash;1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is Boerhaave & rsquo;s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave & rsquo;s early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa chemiae in 1732. Powers reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditio. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
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Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738. |
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Boerhaave, Hermann, 1668-1738. |
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Chemistry -- History.
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Chemistry. |
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History. |
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Chemistry -- Study and teaching -- Netherlands -- Leiden -- History -- 18th century.
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Chemistry -- Study and teaching. |
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Netherlands -- Leiden. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Powers, John C., 1968- Inventing chemistry. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012 9780226677606 (DLC) 2011033952 (OCoLC)754388025 |
| ISBN |
9780226677620 (electronic book) |
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0226677621 (electronic book) |
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1280126353 |
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9781280126352 |
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9780226677606 |
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0226677605 |
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