Principe L.M. (ed.) New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

Springer, 2010. — 200 pp. — (Archimedes, Vol. 18)The book contains contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21-23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored. This volume details new approaches and topics to build a more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include late-phase alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry (by Lawrence M. Principe).
Georg Ernst Stahl’s Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and A Scientific Lineage Redefined (by Kevin Chang).
Chemistry without Principles: Herman Boerhaave on Instruments and Elements (by John C. Powers).
Practicing Chemistry After the Hippocratical Manner: Hippocrates and the Importance of Chemistry for Boerhaave’s Medicine (by Rina Knoeff).
Public Lectures of Chemistry in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France (by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Lehman).
Apothecary-Chemists in Eighteenth-Century Germany (by Ursula Klein).
The Aberdeen Agricola: Chemical Principles and Practice in James Anderson’s Georgics and Geology (by Matthew D. Eddy).
Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808): Chemistry, Medicine, and Books in the French and Chemical Revolutions (by Trevor H. Levere).
Reflections: A Likely Story (by Seymour Mauskopf).