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Axioms, Essences, and Mostly Clean Hands: Preparing to Teach Chemistry with Libavius and Aristotle (2006)

Moran, Bruce T. (Author)

Science and Education
Volume: 15
Pages: 173--187

Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Special Issue: Science Teaching in Early Modern Europe
Language: English

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Andreas Libavius' (c. 1555--1616) three part collection of letters, the Rerum chymicarum epistolica forma ... liber (1595--1599) is a particularly important text in fashioning the subject of chemistry as a demonstrative science and as a didactic discipline. Where Libavius' Alchemia, which some have claimed to be the first textbook of chemistry, had mostly a humanist agenda, the Rerum chymicarum ... liber more directly sought to wrest the subject of chemistry away from Paracelsian adepts, and established the methodological basis for a specific form of knowledge suitable to the university. Making use of Aristotle's Posterior analytics Libavius created a floor-plan for chemistry that integrated practical experience with natural philosophy, and could thus, he claimed, penetrate more deeply into the structure of nature than other academic disciplines.

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