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John C. Powers
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 eightee
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John C. Powers
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century. :157-174
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John C. Powers
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Isis. 111:576-581
The role of history in science education has recently garnered wider interest owing to the heightened importance the Next Generation Science Standards (2012) has placed on conveying to stud...
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John C. Powers
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Early Science and Medicine. 21:420-422
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John C. Powers
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ACS Symposium Series ISBN: 9780841232808
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::893036f0208ecbeaa34acd5169bbb841
https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2018-1273.ch002
https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2018-1273.ch002
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John C. Powers
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Ambix. 61:385-406
In the eighteenth century, many chemists asserted that chemical operations could not decompose a substance into its natural, constituent elements or principles. One such chemist was Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), who claimed, following the work of Rob
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John C. Powers
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Early Science and Medicine. 19:208-210
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John C. Powers
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Osiris. 29
This essay examines Herman Boerhaave’s work with the instrument maker, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, on integrating the thermometer into the practice of eighteenth-century chemistry. Boerhaave utilized the thermometer to generate empirical evidence fo