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The limits of matter : chemistry, mining, and Enlightenment
- Author
- Fors, Hjalmar, author.
- Title
- The limits of matter : chemistry, mining, and Enlightenment / Hjalmar Fors.
- Format
- E-Book
- Published
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- URL
- Access for [All campuses] - (Available on campus and off campus with authorized logon)
- Uniform series
- Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
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- Introduction: the edges of the map
- Of witches, trolls, and inquisitive men
- Chymists in the mining business
- From curious to ingenious knowledge
- Elements of enlightenment
- Capturing the laughing gnome
- Conclusion: material reality and the Enlightenment.
- Summary
- During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic, and miraculous transformations and instead began looking elsewhere to explain the world around them. In The Limits of Matter, Hjalmar Fors investigates how conceptions of matter changed during the Enlightenment and pins this important change in European culture to the formation of the modern discipline of chemistry. Fors reveals how,
- Subject headings
- Matter--Philosophy. Chemistry--History. Mining engineering--History. Enlightenment Chemistry History. Enlightenment. Matter Philosophy. Mining engineering History.
- Genre heading
- History.
- ISBN
- 9780226195049 (electronic bk.) 022619504X (electronic bk.) 9780226194998 022619499X