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Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Piyo Rattansi, Antonio Clericuzio - History - 1994 - 238 pages
The present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on "Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989 ...
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The Chemical Philosophy

Allen G. Debus - Science - 2013 - 660 pages
Swiss-born physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541) and his disciples espoused a doctrine they proclaimed as a truly Christian interpretation of nature in chemistry ...
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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution

Bruce T. MORAN, Bruce T Moran - Science - 2009 - 221 pages
Reacting to the perception that the break, early on in the scientific revolution, between alchemy and chemistry was clean and abrupt, Moran literately and engagingly recaps ...
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Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

John C. Powers - Science - 2012 - 270 pages
The story of this little-known Dutch physician “will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science” (Choice). In Inventing Chemistry ...
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The Divided Self of William James

Richard M. Gale - Philosophy - 1999 - 388 pages
A study of the multiple directions of James's philosophy.
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The Cambridge Companion to Galen

R. J. Hankinson - Philosophy - 2008 - 641 pages
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years ...
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Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects

Seymour Mauskopf, Tad Schmaltz - Science - 2011 - 250 pages
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact ...
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The Discourse of Sensibility: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment

Henry Martyn Lloyd - Science - 2013 - 215 pages
This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late ...
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