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The transmutations of chymistry : Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences / Lawrence M. Principe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Principe, Lawrence, author.
- Series:
- Synthesis.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Synthesis
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homberg, Wilhelm, 1652-1715.
- Homberg, Wilhelm.
- Académie royale des sciences (France).
- Chemists--France--Biography.
- Chemists.
- Scientists--France--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Chemistry--History--17th century.
- Chemistry.
- Chemistry--History--18th century.
- Alchemy--History--17th century.
- Alchemy.
- Alchemy--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 464 pages : illustrations)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This title reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Académie Royale des Sciences, France's official scientific body. By charting Homberg's remarkable life from Java to France's royal court, and his endeavor to create a comprehensive theory of chymistry (including alchemical transmutation), Lawrence M. Principe reveals the period's significance and reassesses its place in the broader sweep of the history of science. Principe, the leading authority on the subject, recounts how Homberg's radical vision promoted chymistry as the most powerful and reliable means of understanding the natural world.
- Contents:
- A merchant of the marvelous
- A Batavian in Paris
- Essaying chymistry
- A new chymical light
- Chrysopoeia at the Acade̹mie and the Palais Royal
- Chymistry in Homberg's later years : practices, promises, poisons, and prisons
- Homberg's legacy
- Epilogue: Homberg and the transmutations of chymistry at the Académie
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-226-70081-X
- 9780226700816
- OCLC:
- 1182841032
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