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Author Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor.

Title The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 / by Anna Marie Roos.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 3
History of science and medicine library ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The context of salts -- Paracelsian concepts of salts -- Van Helmont, salts, and natural history in early modern England -- From salts to saline spirits-the rise of acids -- Salts and saline spirits in the medical marketplace and literature : patent medicines and chymical satire.
Summary Consisting of a series of case studies, this book discusses the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry.
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Subject Paracelsus, 1493-1541 -- Influence.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644 -- Influence.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541 -- Influence.
Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644 -- Influence.
Science -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 16th century.
Science.
Europe.
Philosophy.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Science -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Medicine -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 16th century.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
Salt -- Europe -- History.
Salt.
Salt -- Health aspects.
Salt -- Health aspects.
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
Sodium Chloride -- history.
History, 17th Century.
History, 18th Century.
Sodium Chloride -- chemistry.
Sodium Chloride -- therapeutic use.
England.
Chronological Term 1500-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor. Salt of the earth. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2007027772
ISBN 9789047421412 (electronic book)
9047421418 (electronic book)
9004161767 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789004161764 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789004161764 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004161764.i-296