The transmutations of chymistry : Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie royale des sciences

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)
Subjects:
Homberg, Wilhelm, > 1652-1715.
Académie royale des sciences (France)
Chemists > France > Biography.
Scientists > France > Biography.
Chemistry > History > 17th century.
Chemistry > History > 18th century.
Alchemy > History > 17th century.
Alchemy > History > 18th century.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • A merchant of the marvelous
  • A Batavian in Paris
  • Essaying chymistry
  • A new chymical light
  • Chrysopoeia at the Acade̹mie and the Palais Royal
  • Chymistry in Homberg's later years : practices, promises, poisons, and prisons
  • Homberg's legacy
  • Epilogue: Homberg and the transmutations of chymistry at the Académie.

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