Corporeal Elements and Principles in the Learned German Chymical Tradition
Corporeal Elements and Principles in the Learned German Chymical Tradition
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德国化学传统中的物质元素和原理
DOI:
10.1179/1745823414y.0000000002
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发表时间:
2014
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0.5
通讯作者:
Joel A. Klein
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作者:
Joel A. Klein
Abstract This paper explores diverse conceptions of the physicality and tangibility of elements and principles in early modern chymistry. By tracing the development of natural philosophical and corpuscular ideas about material elements and principles among several physicans and chymists, including Thomas Erastus, Andreas Libavius, Daniel Sennert, and Anton Günther Billich, this article locates a learned tradition that developed predominantly in Germany, and which directly challenged a common understanding of matter held by major Paracelsians as well as authors from the French textbook tradition. Likewise, conceptions of incorporeal elements or principles are shown to have developed from the ideas of Paracelsus and Petrus Severinus, whereas authors in the learned tradition emphasised a particular interpretation of Aristotle. The article concludes by suggesting that chymical interpretations of material composition had an important influence throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that this provides further evidence that the so-called “compositional revolution” in chemistry was well underway prior to the eighteenth century.
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发表时间:
2006
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Aoyama French Studies, n° 15
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作者:
Takafumi;HIRANO
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HIRANO