Inventing chemistry
Subtitle: Herman Boerhaave and the reform of the chemical arts
By: John C. Powers
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226677606
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Chemistry; Study and teaching; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicine as a calling; title: Didactic chemistry in Leiden; title: The institutes of chemistry; title: Chemistry in the medical faculty; title: Instruments and the experimental method; title: Philosophical chemistry; title: From alchemy to chemistry; title: Boerhaave's legacy.