Article ID: CBB000050296

Mineralogy and the autonomy of chemistry around 1800 (1990)

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Description Uses “two major Swedish figures, Torbern Bergman (1735-1784) and Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848), to argue that problems set by mineralogy affected the development of chemistry and that chemistry, thus altered, powerfully affected mineralogy”.


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Authors & Contributors
Lundgren, Anders
Melhado, Evan M.
Frängsmyr, Tore
Lacey, Andrew
Zamecki, Stefan
Wisniak, Jaime
Concepts
Chemistry
Theory of the elements
Organic chemistry
Textbooks
Correspondence and corresponding
Chemical elements
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Sweden
London (England)
Spain
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
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