Origin of the Concept Chemical Compound
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ursula Klein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-204 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889700001666 |
| OpenAlex | W2159935322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 18 |
The ArgumentMost historians of science share the conviction that the incorporation of the corpuscular theory into seventeenth-century chemistry was the beginning of modern chemistry. My thesis in this paper is that modern chemisty started with the concept of the chemicl compound, which emerged at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, without any signifivant influence of the corpuscular theory. Rather the historical reconstruction of the emergence of this concept shows that it resulted from the reflection on the chemical operations in the sixteenth-century metallurgy and seventeenth-century pharmacy. I argue that the reversibility of these operations and their understanding as crafts (metallurgy) or chemical arts (pharmacy) were decisive factors for the emergence of the first ideas about chemical compounds in the seventeenth-century pharmaceutical works written by pharmaceutically trained authors, influenced by the Paracelsian image of nature. There is a direct line of descent from these authors to E.F.Geoffroy (1675-1742), who integrated the first scattered ideas of chemical compound into a general concept comprising chemical artefacts as well as natural bodies
Archaeology · Art · Conviction · Epistemology · Natural Philosophy · Political science · The arts · Visual arts · Chemistry · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
Contemplating the Finger
Viewing past science from the point of view of present science, thereby illuminating both
The chemical element category and classificatory norms
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices
Structure, essence and existence in chemistry
Berzelian Formulas as Paper Tools in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry
Creating a social space for modern science
Chemical atomism
Elements and (first) principles in chemistry
Chemistry as the Science of the Transformation of Substances
Duhem’s theory of mixture in the light of the Stoic challenge to the Aristotelian conception
Intermediate causes and explanations
Instruments and rules
Paper tools in experimental cultures
Scientific pluralism and the Chemical Revolution
Chemical analysis and the domains of reality
Shifting ontologies, changing classifications
The Chemical Revolution revisited
Ruination Science
The Chemical Workshop Tradition and the Experimental Practice
De re metallica
The French Paracelsians
Experiment, difference, and writing
The lack of excellency of Boyle's mechanical philosophy
The Chemical Philosophy
Arcana Disclosed
The Chemical Philosophy
Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise
The Establishment of the Mechanical Philosophy
Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century
Robert Boyle and Seventeenth Century Chemistry
The Great Chain of Being
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |