Chemistry Courses in France in the Mid-Eighteenth- Century: Tradition and Innovation1
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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. The teachers were either an apothecary alone, or a duo of a medical doctor as professor and an apothecary as demonstrator, or in the case of the Jardin des Apothicaires a group of apothecaries.2
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