from Alchemy to Chemistry

Neoplatonism
Plato, Timaeus (Atlantis)
macrocosm / microcosm
elements

khemeia

influence

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
New Atlantis

vacuum
Torricelli / Pascal
Magdeburg hemispheres - Otto von Guericke, 1654

Robert Boyle (1627-91)
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Boyle's Law pV = c
The Sceptical Chymist, 1661

Johann Becher (1635-82)
Physica Subterranea, 1667

• terra fluida (mercury)
• terra lapida (salt)
• terra pinguis (sulphur)

Georg Stahl (1659-1734)
phlogiston

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

• fixed air
• superior air (dephlogisticated)