TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joly,Bernard
TI  - Francis Bacon, the Reformer of Alchemy: Alchemic Tradition and Scientific Invention in the Seventeenth Century
PY  - 2003///.
							
N1  - 54
N2  - Francis Bacon often criticized both the attitude and practice of alchemists. Yet he didn’t reject alchemy, which was the chemistry of his time. Not only did he integrate a few major aspects of Paracelsian thought in his natural philosophy, but he made alchemy one of the sciences which could be improved by applying his new method in a privileged manner. As was the case with quite a few natural philosophers of the seventeenth century, he earnestly tried to develop his own conception of metallic transmutation
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-philosophique-2003-1-page-23?lang=en
ER  -