The Transmutations of Chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences, by Lawrence M. Principe

• Ferdinando Abbri ^[1]
  1. [1] Università di Siena
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 227-230
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Lawrence M. Principe, The Transmutations of Chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. xv + 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-70078-6.

    The period between the end of the seventeenth and the first decades of the eighteenth century represents a crucial phase in the history of modern culture because it marked a strong change of mentalities. Following Paul Hazard’s successful historiographical approach, this period is generally defined as the age of crisis for the European mind. It was an age of true innovations in the field of science, and ...