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Making University Fields for Chymistry: A Case Study of Helmstedt University (2021)

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Current collections of the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) situated in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, contain nearly two thousand chymical books. Most of them were acquired immediately after publication, during a period extending from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The acquisition of these manuscripts and printed books by the former Wolfenbüttel court was closely connected to a university: the Wolfenbüttel Library and the erstwhile University of Helmstedt belonged to the same court of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Both institutions exchanged book holdings several times. As a result, most of the books, as well as the administration files of the university, are today located in Wolfenbüttel. Those materials provide scholars with an opportunity to study the academic demarcations between Aristotelian natural philosophy and chymistry; and to examine the relationship between court chymistry and the university. This article offers some reflections on what chymistry was like at a “normal” early modern university by delineating chymistry’s position within the University of Helmstedt over the period of its existence, from 1576 to 1810.

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Article Ute Frietsch (2021) Alchemy and the Early Modern University: An Introduction. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 119-134). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Caccioppoli, Carmen
Mares, Donatella
Rispoli, Gennaro
Iryna Kachur
Dell'Oro, Giorgio
Maschietto, Ilenia
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Books
Chemistry
Libraries and archives
Collections
Alchemy
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
15th century
Places
Germany
Europe
Italy
Bath (England)
Hamburg (Germany)
England
Institutions
Tübingen. Universität
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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