The Salt of the Earth

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 296 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Anna Marie Roos, Ph.D. (1997) in History, University of Colorado, is a research associate at the Wellcome Unit at Oxford University. She has published extensively in the history of science including Luminaries in the Natural World (Peter Lang, 2001).

Readership

All those interested in intellectual history, history of science, the history of chemistry, early modern natural history, and medicine.

Reviews

"...The Salt of the Earth is a work that meets a high scholarly standard in both form and substance; it should be of interest to any student of early modern chemistry, medicine, and natural philosophy in general."
Victor D. Boantza, Book Reviews - ISIS, 100: 1 (2009), 166-167 pp.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

1. The Context of Salts
2. Paracelsian Concepts of Salts
3. Van Helmont, Salts, and Natural History in Early Modern England
4. From Salts to Saline Spirits—the Rise of Acids
5. Salts and Saline Spirits in the Medical Marketplace and Literature—Patent Medicines and Chymical Satire

Conclusion: From Saline Acids to Acidifying Oxygen

Appendix: Translation from Latin of Martin Lister’s Exercises on the Healing Springs of England (1684)

Bibliography
Index

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