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Chymical teaching in early modern Oxford: from Wilkins to Whiteside

Roos, Anna Marie (2017) Chymical teaching in early modern Oxford: from Wilkins to Whiteside. In: John Wilkins: new essays. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions (20). Brill, Leiden, pp. 219-238. ISBN 9789004348097

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Abstract

I argue during that from the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, chymistry became more of an applied, practical aspect of natural philosophy at Oxford, its motivations economic, largely due to its tangential status in the university.

Keywords:Chymistry, University of Oxford, John Wilkins, Robert Plot, John Whiteside, alchemy, John Worlidge
Subjects:V Historical and Philosophical studies > V214 English History
V Historical and Philosophical studies > V380 History of Science
Divisions:College of Arts > School of History & Heritage > School of History & Heritage (Heritage)
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Deposited On:01 Feb 2017 17:26

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