TY - JOUR
T1 - The "subtile Aereal Spirit of Fountains"
T2 - Mineral Waters and the History of Pneumatic Chemistry
AU - Boantza, Victor D.
AU - Tomory, Leslie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The standard history of pneumatic chemistry is dominated by a landmark-discoverers-type narrative stretching from Robert Boyle, through Stephen Hales, Joseph Black, and Joseph Priestley, to Antoine Lavoisier. This article challenges this view by demonstrating the importance of the study of mineral waters - and their "aerial component" - to the evolution of pneumatic chemistry, from around van Helmont to the period before Black (1640s-1750s). Among key figures examined are Joan Baptista van Helmont, Johann Joachim Becher, Robert Boyle, Friedrich Hoffmann, and William Brownrigg.
AB - The standard history of pneumatic chemistry is dominated by a landmark-discoverers-type narrative stretching from Robert Boyle, through Stephen Hales, Joseph Black, and Joseph Priestley, to Antoine Lavoisier. This article challenges this view by demonstrating the importance of the study of mineral waters - and their "aerial component" - to the evolution of pneumatic chemistry, from around van Helmont to the period before Black (1640s-1750s). Among key figures examined are Joan Baptista van Helmont, Johann Joachim Becher, Robert Boyle, Friedrich Hoffmann, and William Brownrigg.
KW - Friedrich Hoffmann
KW - Joan Baptista van Helmont
KW - Peter Shaw
KW - William Brownrigg
KW - mineral waters
KW - pneumatic chemistry
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U2 - 10.1163/15733823-00214p02
DO - 10.1163/15733823-00214p02
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29944255
AN - SCOPUS:84998577658
VL - 21
SP - 303
EP - 331
JO - Early Science and Medicine
JF - Early Science and Medicine
SN - 1383-7427
IS - 4
ER -