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The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800

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Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945

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ISBN10: 0754663329
ISBN13: 9780754663324
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 28 2008
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bÃate noir of studies that address eighteenth-century culture. This book shows how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history and, by explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, offers a new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain.

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