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100 1 $aMoran, Bruce T.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90713445
245 10 $aDistilling knowledge :$balchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution /$cBruce T. Moran.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2005.
300 $a210 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aNew histories of science, technology, and medicine
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDoing alchemy -- $g2.$t"That pleasing novelty" : alchemy in artisan and daily life -- $g3.$tParacelsus and the "Paracelsians" : natural relationships and separation as creation -- $g4.$tSites of learning and the language of chemistry -- $g5.$tAlchemy, chemistry, and the technology of knowing -- $g6.$tThe reality of relationship -- $tConclusion : varieties of experience in reading the book of nature.
520 1 $a"In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern science. Examining the ways alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700, he shows how these approaches influenced their respective practitioners' ideas about nature and shaped their inquiries into the workings of the natural world. His work sets up a dialogue between what historians have usually presented as separate spheres: here we see how alchemists and early chemists exchanged ideas and methods and in fact shared a territory between their two disciplines." "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 to learning, and in which the messiness of conflict leads to discernment." Seen on its own terms, alchemy can stand within the bounds of demonstrative science."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aChemistry$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85022997
650 0 $aAlchemy$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100970
650 0 $aScience, Renaissance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118614
650 12 $aChemistry$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002621Q000266
650 22 $aAlchemy.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000422
650 22 $aHistory, 16th Century.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049669
650 22 $aHistory, 17th Century.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049670
830 0 $aNew histories of science, technology, and medicine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003001110
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