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Alchemy can't be science - common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. 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.
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very good monograph. Ch.2: "The books that had the greatest direct influence on people's experience were usually opened and consulted so often that they never looked great on the shelf---if they could be found in one piece at all."
very good monograph. Ch.2: "The books that had the greatest direct influence on people's experience were usually opened and consulted so often that they never looked great on the shelf---if they could be found in one piece at all."
very good monograph. Ch.2: "The books that had the greatest direct influence on people's experience were usually opened and consulted so often that they never looked great on the shelf---if they could be found in one piece at all."
very good monograph. Ch.2: "The books that had the greatest direct influence on people's experience were usually opened and consulted so often that they never looked great on the shelf---if they could be found in one piece at all."
very good monograph. Ch.2: "The books that had the greatest direct influence on people's experience were usually opened and consulted so often that they never looked great on the shelf---if they could be found in one piece at all."
