Article ID: CBB000671066

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

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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

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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Authors & Contributors
Moran, Bruce T.
Martin, Craig
Mark Häberlein
Stefan Paul Trzeciok
Walter, Tilmann
Roudaut, François
Concepts
Aristotelianism
Natural philosophy
Chemistry
Alchemy
Philosophy
Science and society
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
15th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
Germany
France
Basel (Switzerland)
Italy
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