Distilling Knowledge
Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution
Published on 1. July 2009
224 pages
978-0-674-04122-6 (ISBN)
Description
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."
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04122-6 (9780674041226)
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09/2006
Harvard University Press
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Person
Bruce T. Moran is Professor of History, University of Nevada at Reno.
Content
Contents Introduction 1. Doing Alchemy 2. "That Pleasing Novelty":Alchemy in Artisan and Daily Life 3. Paracelsus and the "Paracelsians":Natural Relationships and Separation as Creation 4. Sites of Learning and the Language of Chemistry 5. Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Technology of Knowing 6. The Reality of Relationship Conclusion:Varieties of Experience in Reading the Book of Nature References Index
