Tara E Nummedal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara E Nummedal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara E |
| FAMILY NAME | Nummedal |
| SIGNATURE | NUMMEDAL T E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrat…
Distilling Knowledge
Reviewed by: Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution Tara E. Nummedal Bruce T. Moran . Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 210 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-674-01495-2). For the past half-century, historians have struggled to explain alchemy's place in the scientific revolution. In a series of detailed studies, scholars have explored the question…
The Philosophers' Game
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrat…
The Philosophers' Game
Distilling Knowledge
Reviewed by: Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution Tara E. Nummedal Bruce T. Moran . Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 210 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-674-01495-2). For the past half-century, historians have struggled to explain alchemy's place in the scientific revolution. In a series of detailed studies, scholars have explored the question…
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrat…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Alchemy (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of science (2 works) · History of Science and Natural History (2 works)