Some new considerations on Beguin and Libavius

Kent, Andrew; Hannaway, Owen

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“…The subsequent editions of Tyrocinium show a shift in the definition of the role and aims of chemistry, notably, from a practical art to a discipline having both practical and theoretical content. The 1610 edition of the Tyrocinium was indebted to Libavius’ Alchemia of 1597, stressing the practical nature of alchemy: “Alchemy is the art that teaches how to separate the pure from the impure, or the art of perfecting the magisteries, and of separating the pure essence from mixed bodies” (Kent and Hannaway 1960). 2 With the exception of a passing reference to Paracelsus’ spurious De Tinctura Physicorum , it does not contain any substantial challenge to the philosophical and medical tradition, and explicitly states that chemistry is ancillary to medicine.…”

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“Sooty Empiricks” and Natural Philosophers: The Status of Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

Clericuzio

2010

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ArgumentThis article argues that during the seventeenth century chemistry achieved intellectual and institutional recognition, starting its transition from a practical art – subordinated to medicine – into an independent discipline. This process was by no means a smooth one, as it took place amidst polemics and conflicts lasting more than a century. It began when Andreas Libavius endeavored to turn chemistry into a teaching discipline, imposing method and order. Chemistry underwent harsh criticism from Descartes and the Cartesians, who reduced natural phenomena to the mechanical affections of matter, leaving little room for chemistry as an independent discipline. Boyle rejected the chemical principles and promoted the fusion of chemistry with corpuscularianism. He did not reduce chemical phenomena to the mechanical affections of matter, but strived to promote chemistry as part of natural philosophy. Lemery gave strong impulse to the recognition of chemistry as a discipline in its own right by fostering a compromise of chemistry and mechanism. Lemery adopted the chemical principles, but did not see them as the ultimate ingredients of bodies. In order to promote chemistry, he distanced it from alchemy and pursued the reform of chemical terminology.

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“Sooty Empiricks” and Natural Philosophers: The Status of Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

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2010

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Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

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2020

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Pascal's scientific work encompasses a vast range of issues from projective geometry (Essay pour les Coniques, 1640), to mechanical computation (Lettre dédicatoire […] sur le sujet de la machine […] pour faire toutes sortes d 'opérations d'arithmétique, 1645), from fluid statics and the problem of the vacuum (Expériences nouvelles touchant le vide, 1647; Récit de la grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs, 1648) to the problems of stakes, calculus of probabilities and combinatory analysis (Correspondence with Fermat, 1654), to the calculus of indivisibles and the study of infinitesimal problems (Lettres de A. Dettonville, 1659). Despite several of his texts were left unfinished (Generatio conisectionum; De l'esprit géométrique; Introduction à la géométrie), had circulated in very limited editions (Traité du triangle arithmétique, printed in 1654 but not distributed, 1st. ed. 1665; items pertaining to the cycloid competition (1658-1659)), or were printed only posthumously (Traités de l'équilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse de l'air, 1654, 1st ed. 1663) Pascal was a leading figure of the early-modern scientific debate. More importantly, besides his outstanding contributions to different scientific fields, Pascal provided a lucid and cutting edge analysis of the aims and methods of modern science, explored the possibilities of new scientific practices, and proposed a theoretical reappraisal of the limits of scientific enterprises.

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Chemistry Teaching and Textbooks in the Seventeenth Century

Clericuzio¹

2019

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Some new considerations on Beguin and Libavius

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“Sooty Empiricks” and Natural Philosophers: The Status of Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

“Sooty Empiricks” and Natural Philosophers: The Status of Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

Chemistry Teaching and Textbooks in the Seventeenth Century

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