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Bruce T. Moran
Alchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actua
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Bruce T. Moran
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Ambix. 69:320-325
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Bruce T. Moran
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age. :1-23
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Bruce T. Moran
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Ambix. 68:135-153
Making things by means of alchemical know-how, and the habits of knowledge used to sort, classify, and explain alchemy's made things relied upon different traditions of learning and functioned as parts of separate knowledge networks, each making clai
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Bruce T. Moran
Publikováno v:
Ambix. 69(2)
Among the cross currents of social and intellectual life in the early modern era, wonder, utility, and playfulness combined to inspire curiosity and to give value to novel alchemical procedures and chemical remedies. One of the most skilful alchemica
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Martha L. Hildreth, Bruce T. Moran
This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains. Topics include Mormons and the Thomsonian Movement in the nineteenth c
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Bruce T. Moran
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age covers the period from 1500 to 1700, tracing chemical debates and practices within their cultural, social, and political contexts. This era in the history of chemistry was notable for natural ph
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Bruce T. Moran
Throughout his controversial life, the alchemist, physician, and social-religious radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He read ancient texts and then burned “the
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Bruce T. Moran
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A Companion to the History of Science. :210-223
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire
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Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science. 5:185-193