International audienceModern chemistry was not the result of a break with the alchemical tradition, but the continuation of a « chemical philosophy » coming from Paracelsian ideas, which still influenced the works of chemists at the Académie royale des sciences in the early 18th century. A quarrel between Louis Lémery and Étienne-François Geoffroy concerning the artificial fabrication of iron shows that Geoffroy's arguments against Lémery's mechanical conceptions come from alchemical works about metallic dye and metallic principles of the transmutation process. The attack against the alchemist's tricks by Geoffroy is directed at charlatans, but not at ancient chemists : their works provide the matter for the famous affinity table, which is ...
SUMMARY. — In 1661 Boyle presented a dialogue making use of a skeptical line of reasoning. His purpo...
International audienceParadoxically, the distinction between chemical compounds and mixtures believe...
The science of chemistry has undergone two major transformative changes during the early modern peri...
International audienceModern chemistry was not the result of a break with the alchemical tradition, ...
International audienceIn the early eighteenth century a quarrel came out between two French chemists...
Au début du XVIIIe siècle, une querelle éclate entre deux chimistes français à propos de la fabricat...
About a quarrel concerning the artificial production of iron. The differences between Nicolas Lémery...
International audienceThe last decades of 17th century represent a decisive period for the history o...
International audienceThe last decades of 17th century represent a decisive period for the history o...
Edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Seymour H. Mauskopf and William R. NewmanInternational audienceEtienn...
The comparative study of medicine and alchemy in the middle age shows how the conjunction of a theor...
International audienceThe history of chemistry generally seems to admit that a distinction took plac...
Les théories alchimiques du XVIIe siècle furent souvent appelées hermétiques pour marquer leur attac...
The recent historiography of alchemy clearly marked a substantial shift away from the view held by e...
International audienceWithin the framework of the will of the State to develop the economy of France...
SUMMARY. — In 1661 Boyle presented a dialogue making use of a skeptical line of reasoning. His purpo...
International audienceParadoxically, the distinction between chemical compounds and mixtures believe...
The science of chemistry has undergone two major transformative changes during the early modern peri...
International audienceModern chemistry was not the result of a break with the alchemical tradition, ...
International audienceIn the early eighteenth century a quarrel came out between two French chemists...
Au début du XVIIIe siècle, une querelle éclate entre deux chimistes français à propos de la fabricat...
About a quarrel concerning the artificial production of iron. The differences between Nicolas Lémery...
International audienceThe last decades of 17th century represent a decisive period for the history o...
International audienceThe last decades of 17th century represent a decisive period for the history o...
Edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Seymour H. Mauskopf and William R. NewmanInternational audienceEtienn...
The comparative study of medicine and alchemy in the middle age shows how the conjunction of a theor...
International audienceThe history of chemistry generally seems to admit that a distinction took plac...
Les théories alchimiques du XVIIe siècle furent souvent appelées hermétiques pour marquer leur attac...
The recent historiography of alchemy clearly marked a substantial shift away from the view held by e...
International audienceWithin the framework of the will of the State to develop the economy of France...
SUMMARY. — In 1661 Boyle presented a dialogue making use of a skeptical line of reasoning. His purpo...
International audienceParadoxically, the distinction between chemical compounds and mixtures believe...
The science of chemistry has undergone two major transformative changes during the early modern peri...