Author: Herman BoerhaavePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Elementa Chemiae. A New Method of Chemistry; Including the History, Theory, and Practice of the Art: Translated from the Original Latin ... To which are Added, Notes; and an Appendix, Shewing the Necessity and Utility of Enlarging the Bounds of Chemistry ... By Peter Shaw, M.D. The Second Edition
Author: Herman BoerhaaveElementa Chemiae. A New Method of Chemistry ; Including the History, Theory, and Practice of the Art: Translated from the Original Latin ... To which are Added, Notes ; and an Appendix, Shewing the Necessity and Utility of Enlarging the Bounds of Chemistry ... By Peter Shaw, M.D. The Second Edition
Author: Bibliography of the Exact Sciences in the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700)
Author: K. HoogendoornPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004361375
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1441
Book Description
In this bibliography of the exact sciences in the Low Countries, Klaas Hoogendoorn gives a detailed analytical description by autopsy of all printed books published by scientists associated with the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700). The books' locations are given, along with secondary bibliographical sources and concise biographies of the authors. Includes indexes of the editions by subject, printer/publisher and person. Along with books on subjects including mathematics, physics, military science and navigation, the second part describes all known almanacs and prognostications for the period, providing the most complete survey yet available. It is a thoroughly revised and expanded update of D. Bierens de Haan’s Bibliographie néerlandaise historique-scientifique ... (Rome, 1883) up to about 1700.
The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library
Author: Roy G. NevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Ambix
Author: A History of Luminescence
Author: E. Newton HarveyPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781516980413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
An in depth history on the subject of luminescence. From elements to the sky to biological and more.
The Language of Mineralogy
Author: Matthew D. EddyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bête noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it concentrates on one of Scotland's most influential Enlightenment naturalists, Rev Dr John Walker, the professor of natural history at the school from 1779 to 1803. Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.
A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple
Author: Tofigh HeidarzadehPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402083238
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets. The available works either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of physical cometology or portray a landscape view without adequate details. The present study is an attempt to review – with more details – the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia, from Aristotle to Whipple. My research, however, did not begin with antiquity. The basic question from which this project originated was a simple inquiry about the cosmic identity of comets at the dawn of the astronomical revolution: how did natural philosophers and astronomers define the nature and place of a new category of celestial objects – comets – after Brahe’s estimation of cometary distances? It was from this turning point in the history of cometary theories that I expanded my studies in both the pre-modern and modern eras. A study starting merely from Brahe and ending with Newton, without covering classical and medieval thought about comets, would be incomplete and leave the fascinating achievements of post-Newtonian cometology unexplored.
Bibliotheca Chemica
Author: John FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Author: Jonathan Pereira