Alfonso-Goldfarb, Ana Maria (Author)
Ferraz, Marcia H. M. (Author)
Waisse, Silvia (Author)
Although the emergence of chemistry as a modern science at the end of the 18ih century has been the subject of extensive scholarship, the reorganization of the b.rnnches of knowledge that Jed to that olltcome were scarcely addressed. In the first part of the article we discuss the tatus of chemistry within the organi~ation of knowledge in emy modern times as represented by the vicws of Royal Society fellows. As su~ views were allegedly grounded on F. Bacon's proposals for the advance men of leaIDIng, we review them btiefly in the sec ad part About one century later another Englishman, E. hambeJ:s, authored a widely read and comprehensive encyclopedia. the system of which was meant to underpin the original model for the F,rench E1IfYclopMie. However, as \ve show in the fourth part of the aLticle. D. Diderot Rnd J. d'Alembert eventually acknowledged their greater debt to Bacon, albcit with significant changes. M dem chemistry finally emerged within a context of dramatic specializatio~ f science that demanded. an explicit method for the organization f knowledge, as illustrated by the ., tlfJdqpedio 1PelhomqIl6 .
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