The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and topics in an attempt to build a richer, fuller, more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include "late-phase" alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.

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A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry.- Georg Ernst Stahl's Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and A Scientific Lineage Redefined.- Chemistry without Principles: Herman Boerhaave on Instruments and Elements.- Practicing Chemistry After the Hippocratical Manner: Hippocrates and the Importance of Chemistry for Boerhaave's Medicine.- Public Lectures of Chemistry in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France.- Apothecary-Chemists in Eighteenth-Century Germany.- The Aberdeen Agricola: Chemical Principles and Practice in James Anderson's Georgics and Geology.- Dr. Thomas Beddoes (17601808): Chemistry, Medicine, and Books in the French and Chemical Revolutions.- Refl ections: A Likely Story.