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Published on: 2010-05-05
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Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Tracing the alchemical roots of Robert Boyle’s famous mechanical philosophy, Newman shows that alchemy contributed to the mechanization of nature, a movement that lay at the very heart of scientific discovery. Boyle and his predecessors—figures like the mysterious medieval Geber or the Lutheran professor Daniel Sennert—provided convincing experimental proof that matter is made up of enduring particles at the microlevel. At the same time, Newman argues that alchemists created the operational criterion of an “atomic” element as the last point of analysis, thereby contributing a key feature to the development of later chemistry.  Atomsand Alchemy thus provokes a refreshing debate about the origins of modern science and will be welcomed—and deliberated—by all who are interested in the development of scientific theory and practice. Alchemie - Wikipedia Etymologie. Aangenomen wordt dat het woord alchemie een samenstelling is van al en chemie of chem. Al is een Arabisch lidwoord maar het is onduidelijk of het tweede ... Atomism - Wikipedia Reductionism. Philosophical atomism is a reductive argument: not only that everything is composed of atoms and void but that nothing they compose really exists: the ... History of chemistry - Wikipedia The history of alchemy represents a time span from ancient history to the present. By 1000 BC civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of ...
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