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Elements, Principles and Corpuscles - A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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Elements, Principles and Corpuscles - A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 171
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In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores
the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in
the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have
regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct
traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the
17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is
attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French
and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular
theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines.
Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio
redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not
subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy.
When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to
corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The
combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by
a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th
century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number
of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the
corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical
philosophy. He points out that different versions of the
corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them
were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that
matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the
17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties,
are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is
a significant contribution to both history of science and history
of philosophy.
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