History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine

Better Living Through Alchemy: Private Lives and Applied Science in the Early Modern Era

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Synopsis

Bruce Moran discusses alchemy—a subject that he says is often greatly misunderstood and one that figures significantly in early modern science. Moran is the Dibner Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington for 2010–11 and the author of “Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution.”