Making University Fields for Chymistry: A Case Study of Helmstedt University
Making University Fields for Chymistry: A Case Study of Helmstedt University
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打造化学大学校园：赫尔姆施泰特大学案例研究
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10.1080/00026980.2021.1922018
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2021
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Ute Frietsch
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作者：
Ute Frietsch
位于德国wolfenb<e:1> ttel的Herzog August Bibliothek （HAB）目前的藏品包含近2000本化学书籍。其中大多数是在15世纪到18世纪期间出版后立即获得的。前wolfenbttel法院获得的这些手稿和印刷书籍与一所大学密切相关：wolfenbttel图书馆和以前的Helmstedt大学属于布伦瑞克-莱尔<e:2>内堡的同一个法院。这两个机构交换了几次藏书。因此，大部分的书籍，以及大学的行政文件，今天都位于wolfenbttel。这些材料为学者们研究亚里士多德自然哲学与化学之间的学术界限提供了机会；并研究宫廷化学和大学之间的关系。这篇文章通过描述从1576年到1810年在赫尔姆斯泰特大学存在期间化学的地位，提供了一些关于化学在一所“正常”的早期现代大学中的情况的思考。
Current collections of the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) situated in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, contain nearly two thousand chymical books. Most of them were acquired immediately after publication, during a period extending from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The acquisition of these manuscripts and printed books by the former Wolfenbüttel court was closely connected to a university: the Wolfenbüttel Library and the erstwhile University of Helmstedt belonged to the same court of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Both institutions exchanged book holdings several times. As a result, most of the books, as well as the administration files of the university, are today located in Wolfenbüttel. Those materials provide scholars with an opportunity to study the academic demarcations between Aristotelian natural philosophy and chymistry; and to examine the relationship between court chymistry and the university. This article offers some reflections on what chymistry was like at a “normal” early modern university by delineating chymistry’s position within the University of Helmstedt over the period of its existence, from 1576 to 1810.