Book ID: CBB000100183

Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century (2000)

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Clericuzio, Antonio (Author)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xi + 223 pp., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Attempts to set out the influence of alchemy on corpuscularianism and to reinterpret figures, such as Robert Boyle, who have been read as mechanists in their approach to nature.


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Review Shackelford, Jole (2002) Review of "Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 117). unapi

Review Henry, John (2003) Review of "Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 129). unapi

Review Chalmers, Alan (2002) Review of "Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 68). unapi

Review Garber, Daniel (2002) Review of "Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century". Journal of the History of Philosophy (p. 400). unapi

Review Lüthy, Christoph (2004) Review of "Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 103). unapi

Review Bandinelli, Angela (2004) Review of "Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 442). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Newman, William Royall
Banchetti-Robino, Marina Paola
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Lüthy, Christoph H.
Cook, Margaret G.
Inglehart, Ashley J.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Foundations of Chemistry
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Königshausen & Neumann
Brill
Ashgate
Indiana University
Concepts
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Chemistry
Atomism
Physics
Alchemy
Natural philosophy
People
Boyle, Robert
Sennert, Daniel
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Gassendi, Pierre
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
16th century
Modern
Medieval
18th century
Places
England
Great Britain
Scotland
France
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