Teaching Chemistry and Chemical Textbooks in France. From Beguin to Lemery

Clericuzio, Antonio

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“…• history, bibliography, and typography (Wojdon, 2018;Zubko, 2016) • chemical principles (Clericuzio, 2006) • didactic unit atomic models (Novais & Bedin, 2023) • Brønsted-Lowry acid-base theory (Kim et al, 2017) • included student activities (Aldahmash & Omar, 2021) • Le Châtelier's principle (Quílez, 2021) • nature of science (Abd-El-Khalick et al, 2008;Zarei & Hossein, 2023;Zhu & Tang, 2023) • types of chemical reactions (Aydin et al, 2014) • didactic capacity (Karásková et al, 2019) • chemical representations (Demirdöğen, 2017;Akaygun & Arkun, 2022), etc. Some of these studies encompassed textbooks in languages other than English (from Brazil, China, Iran, Korea, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, etc.…”

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Mendeleev’s Portrayal and Mendeleevian Eponyms in Chemical Education: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Slabin

2024

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Scholars as exemplars and their linked eponyms play a significant role in education. Since the discovery of the periodic law in 1869, perceptions of Mendeleev and his eponyms may have shifted. With the aim of assessing the historical and current portrayal of Mendeleev and his eponyms in chemistry textbooks and on the Internet, content analysis of textbooks, including Soviet and contemporary Russian (11) and Ukrainian (16), was conducted. Additionally, an Internet search in 7 languages was conducted to assess the prevalence of Mendeleevian eponyms online. Primary Mendeleevian eponyms are predominantly utilized in the Russian segment of the Internet. While Mendeleev’s portrayal held significance in mid-20th-century Soviet chemistry textbooks, his presence has dwindled in current Russian and Ukrainian textbooks. This decline is attributed to the obsolescence of associated chemical realities, the disputed priority of Mendeleev, and an ambiguous attitude towards him. The implications of this decline include loss of historical context, reduced memorization aids, impact on critical thinking, disruption of continuity, and reduced humanism in education. The research underscores the importance of a balanced and inclusive approach to science education, recognizing contributions from scientists of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and highlights the interconnected nature of science education and international relations. Keywords: chemistry textbook, content analysis, eponym, Mendeleev, periodic system

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Mendeleev’s Portrayal and Mendeleevian Eponyms in Chemical Education: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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2024

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“…Their authors tried to match these principles with the results of analytic practices performed in the laboratory. Joseph Du Chesne's theory of the five principles (water, mercury, sulfur, salt, earth), for instance, was endorsed by the Parisian teacher Étienne De Clave, who identified these principles with five classes of distillation products (Kim 2003, 17-63;Clericuzio 2006). Analytic and synthetic operations were already at the basis of medieval alchemy (e.g., in ps.-Geber's Summa perfectionis) and fire distillation became quite popular in the framework of Paracelsian spagyric alchemy, which emphasized Scheidung procedures to analyze substances into their main constituents.…”

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“…William Davidson (ca. 1593-1669), teacher of iatrochemistry at the Jardin du Roi, identified the ultimate constituents of bodies with atoms, identified as the basic components both of Paracelsian principles and of Aristotelian elements (Clericuzio 2006). Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg, used solution analysis to break up metals into their main components, namely, corporeal corpuscles.…”

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Chemistry in Renaissance Sciences

Martelli

2019

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

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“…The medical faculty saw the conferences as a threat to the medical tradition and managed to put an end to Renaudot's Bureau d'Adresse in 1642 (Solomon 1972; Debus 1991, 84–95). Thanks to Guy de la Brosse, Parisian iatrochemists achieved success with the foundation of the Jardin du Roi in 1640, where chemistry courses were regularly delivered and a laboratory operated (Debus 1991, 84; 131; Joly 1995; Clericuzio 2006). It was Guy de la Brosse, a student of Beguin's and a Paracelsian, who introduced chemistry to be among the disciplines taught at the Jardin (Guerlac 1972; Howard 1981; Howard 1983).…”

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“Sooty Empiricks” and Natural Philosophers: The Status of Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

Clericuzio

2010

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ArgumentThis article argues that during the seventeenth century chemistry achieved intellectual and institutional recognition, starting its transition from a practical art – subordinated to medicine – into an independent discipline. This process was by no means a smooth one, as it took place amidst polemics and conflicts lasting more than a century. It began when Andreas Libavius endeavored to turn chemistry into a teaching discipline, imposing method and order. Chemistry underwent harsh criticism from Descartes and the Cartesians, who reduced natural phenomena to the mechanical affections of matter, leaving little room for chemistry as an independent discipline. Boyle rejected the chemical principles and promoted the fusion of chemistry with corpuscularianism. He did not reduce chemical phenomena to the mechanical affections of matter, but strived to promote chemistry as part of natural philosophy. Lemery gave strong impulse to the recognition of chemistry as a discipline in its own right by fostering a compromise of chemistry and mechanism. Lemery adopted the chemical principles, but did not see them as the ultimate ingredients of bodies. In order to promote chemistry, he distanced it from alchemy and pursued the reform of chemical terminology.

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Teaching Chemistry and Chemical Textbooks in France. From Beguin to Lemery

Abstract: In the seventeenth century the status of chemistry changed remarkably.

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Mendeleev’s Portrayal and Mendeleevian Eponyms in Chemical Education: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Mendeleev’s Portrayal and Mendeleevian Eponyms in Chemical Education: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Chemistry in Renaissance Sciences

“Sooty Empiricks” and Natural Philosophers: The Status of Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

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