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

This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of t

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observ