Article ID: CBB276623423

The “Subtile Aereal Spirit of Fountains”: Mineral Waters and the History of Pneumatic Chemistry (2016)

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The standard history of pneumatic chemistry is dominated by a landmark-discoverers-type narrative stretching from Robert Boyle, through Stephen Hales, Joseph Black, and Joseph Priestley, to Antoine Lavoisier. This article challenges this view by demonstrating the importance of the study of mineral waters – and their “aerial component” – to the evolution of pneumatic chemistry, from around van Helmont to the period before Black (1640s–1750s). Among key figures examined are Joan Baptista van Helmont, Johann Joachim Becher, Robert Boyle, Friedrich Hoffmann, and William Brownrigg.

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Authors & Contributors
Debus, Allen G.
Clericuzio, Antonio
Walton, Michael Thomson
Yoshimoto, Hideyuki
Newman, William Royall
Principe, Lawrence M.
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
化学史研究 [Kagakushi kenkyū; Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry]
British Journal for the History of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Vesalius
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Science History
Pickering & Chatto
Ashgate Publishing
Concepts
Chemistry
Medicine
Alchemy
Pneumatic chemistry
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Theory of the elements
People
Boyle, Robert
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Newton, Isaac
Boerhaave, Herman
Hoffmann, Friedrich
Sherley, Thomas
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Berlin (Germany)
Bath (England)
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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