Medicine, metals and empire
The survival of a chymical projector in early eighteenth-century London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8395166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Koji Yamamoto (0000-0002-7375-6285, Bridge University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 607-637 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000708741500059x |
| PMID | 26336059 |
| OpenAlex | W2255007439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
It is well known that Newtonian philosophers such as Johan T. Desaguliers defined their authority in contradistinction to the ‘projector’, a promoter of allegedly impractical and fraudulent schemes. Partly due to the lack of evidence, however, we know relatively little about these eighteenth-century projectors, especially those operating outside learned networks without claims to gentility, disinterest or theoretical sophistication. This paper begins to remedy this lacuna through the case of a ‘chymical’ projector, Moses Stringer (fl. 1693–1714). Instead of aspiring to respectability, this London chymist survived by vigorously promoting new projects, thereby accelerating, rather than attenuating, the course of action that rendered him dubious in the first place. The article follows his (often abortive) exploitation of medicine, metals and empire, and thereby illuminates the shady end of the enlightened world of public science
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Empire · Physics · Political science · Projector · Sociology · Sophistication · Computer Science · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |