Lawrence Principe
Autore di The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis)
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Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction and Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, mostra altro and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry, the latter coauthored with William Newman and published by the University of Chicago Press. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Lawrence M. Principe, from wikipedia.
Opere di Lawrence Principe
Transmutations: Alchemy in Art: Selected Works from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage… (2005) 19 copie
New narratives in eighteenth-century chemistry : contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21 - 23 April,… (2007) 5 copie
The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences (Synthesis) (2020) 4 copie
SCIENCE & RELIGION Course guidebook, Lectures in print, Discs 1 and 2, 12 lectures 30 minutes each 2 copie
Beginning the Journey 1 copia
La revolución científica / The Scientific Revolution: Una breve introducción / A Very Short Introduction (Spanish… (2013) 1 copia
Plato's Cosmos 1 copia
Plato and the Pythagoreans 1 copia
The Force of Isaac Newton 1 copia
The New Physics 1 copia
The Presocratics 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1962-05-16
- Sesso
- male
- Istruzione
- Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD|Organic Chemistry)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD|History of Science) - Attività lavorative
- chemist
historian of science
professor - Organizzazioni
- Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe,
Johns Hopkins University (Department of History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry)
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The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis) di Lawrence M. Principe
This is one of those rare books that explains alchemy as part of history, as a set of beliefs that could be either metaphorical, spiritual, or physical, and that lead toward what became chemistry.
I found this Great Courses audiobook series of lectures by Professer Lawrence M. Principe on Science and Religion to be extremely educational and intellectually stimulating. Professor Principe did a very good job of summarizing and condensing into twelve half hour lectures an immense amount of information giving us a solid stepping stone on some of the principal points of history of theology and science and of some of the principal players in each. The main focus is how science and religion have for most of history not been at war with each other and the idea that they are is a relatively modern development and the reasons for that are explained.
Evolution and creationism is gone over in some detail, as well as the evangelical, fundamentalist movements in America that have grown so large in recent years and are one of the major sources of the huge divisions and political battling for control Americans are currently facing.… (altro)
Evolution and creationism is gone over in some detail, as well as the evangelical, fundamentalist movements in America that have grown so large in recent years and are one of the major sources of the huge divisions and political battling for control Americans are currently facing.… (altro)
This book does exactly what it says on the cover - it's a short introduction to the Scientific Revolution with a good overview of the main ideas, people, and events. The bibliographies are thorough. This is a good starting point to research on the Scientific Revolution.
It's not that people in the pre-scientific age weren't intelligent - but rather they engaged in a fundamentally different form of reasoning. Science allowed us to reason differently about what we observe. Principe provides a wonderful and accessible account of this shift.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Utenti
- 586
- Popolarità
- #42,792
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 34
- Lingue
- 3