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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution

Alisha Rankin

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394 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 13 (2008) 384415 Bruce T. Moran, Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 210, $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0674 01495 2. Distilling Knowledge provides a much-needed survey of the relationship between alchemy and the development of natural knowledge in early modern Europe. The role of alchemy and alchemists in pre-modern science has been the subject of a substantial body of scholarship in recent decades, and among historians of science the influence of alchemy on the ‘Scientific Revolution’ is well established. Moran does the

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Key concepts: Alchemy, Scientific revolution, Scholarship, History of science, Subject (documents), History of science and technology, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Natural science