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Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.

Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scie...

Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.

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Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.

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Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.

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Publisher

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2005.

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N540.9/53

Record Identifier

74VKpxJdgoed

MMS ID

991019456949702626

Language

English

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Physical content

210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents

1. Doing alchemy -- 2. "That pleasing novelty" : alchemy in artisan and daily life -- 3. Paracelsus and the "Paracelsians" : natural relationships and separation as creation -- 4. Sites of learning and the language of chemistry -- 5. Alchemy, chemistry, and the technology of knowing -- 6. The realit...

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Publisher

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2005.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

c2005.

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Summary

"Distilling Knowledge suggests that scientific revolution may wear a different appearance in different cultural contexts. The metaphor of the Scientific Revolution, Moran argues, can be expanded to make sense of alchemy and other so-called pseudo-sciences - by including a new framework in which "process can count as an object, in which making leads...

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Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.

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General note

New histories of science, technology, and medicine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Date Copyright

c2005.

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N540.9/53

Record Identifier

74VKpxJdgoed

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKpxJdgoed

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ISBN

0674014952 (alk. paper)

9780674014954 (alk. paper)

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540.9

MMS ID

991019456949702626

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