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Book
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Author
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 International Conference on the History of Alchemy and Chymistry (2006 : Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia)
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Title
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Chymists and chymistry : studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry / Lawrence M. Principe, editor.
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Publisher
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Sagamore Beach, MA : Science History Publications/USA, c2007.
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Physical Descrip.
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xiii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Introduction / Lawrence M. Principe -- King Henry IV, alchemy, and paracelsianism in France (1589-1620) / Dider Kahn -- The less-well known libavius: spirits, poweres and metaphors in the practice of knowing nature / Bruce T. Moran -- Alchemical exegesis: fractious distillations of the essence of Hermes / Peter Forshaw -- Achemy and certainty in the seventeenth century / Stephen Clucas -- Coping with heresy: suchten, toxites, and the early reception of paracelsus’s theology / Dane T. Daniel -- Transitionaing from transubtatiation to transmutation catholic anxieties over chymical matter theory at the University of Prague / Margaret D. Garber -- Kircher’s chymical interpretation of the creation and spontaneous generation / Hiro Hirai -- Newton’s theory of metallic generation in previously neglected text "humores minerals continuo decidunt" / William R. Newman --
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Pseuto-lullian alchemy and the mercurial phoenix: Giovanni da Correggio’s de quercu Iulii pontificis sive De lapide philosophico / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Nude and nature and the art of alchemy in Jean Perreal’s early sixteenth-century miniature / Barbara Obrist -- Mercury falling: gender malleability and sexual fluidity in early modern popular alchemy / Allison B. Kavey -- Origins and transmission of the Liber de aluminibus et salibus / Gabriele Ferrario -- The tools of the chemist: archaelogical and scientific analyses of early modern laboratories / Marcos Martinón-Torres -- Crucibles, cupels, cucurbits: recent results of research on paracelsian alchemy in Austria around 1600 / R. Werner Soukup -- On the utility of alchemical fraud / Tara Nummedal -- Reflections on matter and manner: duclos reads Boyle, 1668-69 / Victor D. Boantza -- The Cartesians and chemistry: Cordemoy, Rohault, Régis / Luc Peterschmitt --
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Quarrels between Etienne-Francois Geoffroy and Louis Lémery at the académic royale des sciences in the arly eighteenth century: mechanism and alchemy / Bernard Joly -- From the vitalistic cosmos to materialistic world: the lineage of Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl and the shift of early modern cymical cosmology / Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang -- Scrutinizing the alchemists: Herman Boerhaave and the testing of chymistry / John C. Powers -- Occult traditions and enlightened science: the Swedish board of mines as an intellectual environment 1680-1760 / Hjalmar Fors -- Alchemy and enlightenment in Germany: ideas, Biographies, secret societies and a changing cultural context / Claus Priesner.
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Subject(s)
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Alchemy -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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Chemistry -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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Chemistry -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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Other Author(s)
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Principe, Lawrence.
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Link to Online
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 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007020807.html
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ISBN
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9780881353969
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0881353965
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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MH Main Library
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Owned By
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SC Young Science Library
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