Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth-century chemistry as an investigative enterprise

14 articles, the most reflective is that of an outsider, Jane Lewis of the London School of Economics, who in an overview of the literature suggests, somewhat at odds with the other contributors, that "it is a mistake to see women as passive recipients [of obstetrical care] or as victims of these changes". Essays in the volume edited by Valerie Fildes continue this celebratory note of women's e...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chemistry Courses in France in the Mid-Eighteenth- Century: Tradition and Innovation1

Chemistry was fashionable in the Enlightenment. In Paris, in the middle of the 18th century, the supply of chemistry courses was extensive and the public had a choice between two types: public courses, free and open to all, for instance those at the Jardin des Apothicaires and at the Jardin du Roi and fee-paying particular courses, which took place in the private laboratory of an apothecary. Th...