Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

by John C. Powers

Book Overview

In Inventing Chemistry , historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is Boerhaave's educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave's early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022638036X
• ISBN13: 9780226380360
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"