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The Changing Visions of Chymistry at Seventeenth-Century Jena: The Two Brendels, Rolfinck, Wedel, and Others (2021)

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The University of Jena was an important locus for chymistry teaching in Germany throughout the seventeenth century. Zacharias Brendel the Elder and the Younger, Werner Rolfinck, and Georg Wolfgang Wedel were four of the Jena professors who offered courses of chymistry during this time. These four held notably divergent views on the purpose, character, and legitimate content of chymistry, as well as of its proper place within the university. The distinctions among them prove especially clear in their widely differing assessments of metallic transmutation and of other longstanding chymical traditions and pursuits. Significantly, their sequential views do not form any linear progression over time. Instead, they illustrate the continuing disagreements and negotiations about chymistry, its role, and its identity as a discipline. The situation at Jena enriches our understanding of chymistry’s seventeenth-century “didactic tradition” and documents the internal diversity of the subject and of its professors and practitioners.

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Authors & Contributors
Bach, Thomas
Rasche, Ulrich
Maatsch, Jonas
Frercks, Jan
Beyer, Lothar
Passaponti, Maurizio
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Science education and teaching
Chemistry
Conference proceedings
Medicine
Professions and professionalization
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
Leipzig (Germany)
Great Britain
Scotland
Freiberg (Germany)
Spain
Institutions
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Universität Leipzig
Heidelberg Universität
Bergakademie Freiberg
Marburg. Universität
Universität Wittenberg
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