Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.
Distilling knowledge : alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution / Bruce T. Moran.
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2005.
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N540.9/53
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English
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210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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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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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2005.
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Massachusetts
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c2005.
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"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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New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2005.
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N540.9/53
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0674014952 (alk. paper)
9780674014954 (alk. paper)
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540.9
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991019456949702626