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100	1	0	_aJoly, Bernard _eauthor
245	0	0	_aSupposed Distinctions between Chemistry and Alchemy During the 17th Century: Questions of History and Method
260			_c2007.
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520			_aModern chemistry was not the result of a break with the alchemical tradition, but the continuation of a “chemical philosophy” coming from Paracelsian ideas, which still influenced the works of chemists at the Académie royale des sciences in the early 18th century. A quarrel between Louis Lémery and Étienne-François Geoffroy concerning the artificial fabrication of iron shows that Geoffroy’s arguments against Lémery’s mechanical conceptions come from alchemical works about metallic dye and metallic principles of the transmutation process. The attack against the alchemist’s tricks by Geoffroy is directed at charlatans, but not at ancient chemists: their works provide the matter for the famous affinity table, which is a pillar of 18th century chemistry.
690			_aalchemy
690			_aCartesianism
690			_achemistry
690			_ahermetism
690			_amechanism
786	0		_nRevue d’histoire des sciences | Volume 60 | 1 | 2007-08-01 | p. 167-184 | 0151-4105
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-des-sciences-2007-1-page-167?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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