The transmutations of chymistry : Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie royale des sciences / Lawrence M. Principe.

"This book resurrects science history between Robert Boyle and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier by telling the story of a remarkable genius who devised an innovative, comprehensive, and experimentally based theory of alchemy/chemistry (called chymistry) that was widely celebrated and adopted both in h...

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Main Author: Principe, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Series:Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
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