The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750
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書誌事項
The salt of the earth : natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750
（History of science and medicine library, v. 3）
Brill, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. No reliable study on this subject has been previously available. Its exploration of natural history's and medicine's intersection with chemical investigation in early modern England demonstrates the growing importance of the senses and experience as causes of intellectual change from 1650-1750. It demonstrates that an understanding of the changing definitions of "salt" is also crucial to a historical comprehension of the transition between alchemy and chemistry.
目次
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. The Context of Salts
2. Paracelsian Concepts of Salts
3. Van Helmont, Salts, and Natural History in Early Modern England
4. From Salts to Saline Spirits-the Rise of Acids
5. Salts and Saline Spirits in the Medical Marketplace and Literature-Patent Medicines and Chymical Satire
Conclusion: From Saline Acids to Acidifying Oxygen
Appendix: Translation from Latin of Martin Lister's Exercises on the Healing Springs of England (1684)
Bibliography
Index
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