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The seventeenth-century scientific revolution and the eighteenth-century chemical revolution are rarely considered together, either in general histories of scie

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on th

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that

Transforming Matter provides an accessible and clearly written introduction to the history of chemistry, telling the story of how the discipline has developed o