Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire History of Science including its rivalries and struggles

including its rivalries and struggles for recognition and power

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xii + 266pp

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Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire History of Science including its rivalries and strugglesMoran, Bruce T. . . . Moran is focusing on something ignored by many intellectual historians: the personality of his historical actor. It may not be particularly pretty in Libaviuss case, but Moran demonstrates that his protagonists 'outrageous rhetoric and disdainful conduct' (292) were an integral part of his achievements as a proponent of a particular vision of chymistry, in which Aristotle and artisanal expertise were combined with hermeticism,