Atoms and alchemy [electronic resource] : chymistry and the experimental origins of the scientific revolution / William R. Newman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 250 p., 8 p. of plates) : col. illISBN:- 9780226577036 (electronic bk.)
- 0226577031 (electronic bk.)
- 509 22
- Q125 .N484 2006eb
- 2006 L-167
- Q 125
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.
The problematic position of alchemy in the scientific revolution -- 1. The mise en scéne before Sennert. The medieval tradition of alchemical corpuscular theory ; Erastus and the critique of chemical analysis ; Aristotelian corpuscular theory and Andreas Libavius -- 2. Daniel Sennert's atomism and the reform of Aristotelian matter theory. The corpuscular theory of Daniel Sennert and its sources -- The interplay of structure and essence in Sennert's corpuscular theory -- 3. Robert Boyle's matter theory. Boyle, Sennert, and the mechanical philosophy -- Boyle's use of chymical corpuscles and the reduction to the pristine state to demonstrate the mechanical origin of qualities.
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