The Slow Evolution of a Chimeric Field: Perceptions of <i>Chymistry</i> Through Early Learned Journals, 1665-1743
<p>Scholars have made the argument that during the eighteenth century alchemy came increasingly to be seen as a fraudulent science or a science for charlatans, while chemistry retained its intellectual prestige. Around the same time "alchemy" and "chemistry" began their div...
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LSU
2017
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04062017-080339/ |