History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 12 (2/24/00)

 

Topics   Competing practices and frameworks for chemistry Aristotle's four elements Alchemy Mining and metallurgy Iatrochemistry Modifications to the Aristotelian model Boyle's program Chemical affinity Pneumatic chemistry Digression:  Priestley (didn't get to) Digression:  experimental equipment ( mixed in with rest) Confusion of frameworks

Names and terms    Georg Agricola, De re metallica (1556) iatrochemistry Paracelsus (1493-1541) doctrine of signatures Georg Stahl phlogiston Boyle, The Sceptical chymist (1654) Stephen Hales, Vegetable staticks (1727) Joseph Priestley (1773-1804) Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)

 
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