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SUMMARY:Emma Spary, What use was chymistry? Chymists, botanists, and the problem of plant identification in Paris, 1660-1715
LOCATION:Offiss Università di Bologna
DESCRIPTION:Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)What use was chymistry? Chymists, botan
ists, and the problem of plant identification in Paris, 1660-1715There is a
sense of the frustration the chymists of the Paris Academy of Sciences mus
t have felt concerning their attempt to use chymical analysis to investigat
e the nature of plants in the confession of Denis Dodart, the project leade
r, that exhaustive programmes of plant analysis had abutted in nothing more
than convincing 'men of their powerlessness… to know the virtues of plants
’. This statement, made in 1679, suggests a stalemate in attempts to frame
chymistry as a route to understanding the nature of plants. And yet efforts
to apply chymical analysis to plants continued at the academy, less as a g
eneric institutional goal than as the personal goal of particular academic
chymists: Guillaume Homberg, Nicolas Lémery or Simon Boulduc. This paper wi
ll argue that one way in which chymists managed to defend a reputation as i
nquirers into the nature of living beings was by hitching their chariot to
medical botany. Against portrayals of Lémery as a chymist of a new stripe,
who reformed and made respectable this art, severing it from its medical ro
ots, I will suggest that involvement with botanists was vital in conferring
credibility upon chymical experimentation at this time, by presenting chym
ists' goals as aligned with iatrobotanists' agenda of documenting the world
's provision of healing plants.\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)
What use was chy
mistry? Chymists, botanists, and the problem of plant identification in Par
is, 1660-1715
There is a sense of the frustration the chymists o
f the Paris Academy of Sciences must have felt concerning their attempt to
use chymical analysis to investigate the nature of plants in the confession
of Denis Dodart, the project leader, that exhaustive programmes of plant a
nalysis had abutted in nothing more than convincing 'men of their powe
rlessness… to know the virtues of plants’. This statement, made in 1679, su
ggests a stalemate in attempts to frame chymistry as a route to understandi
ng the nature of plants. And yet efforts to apply chymical analysis to plan
ts continued at the academy, less as a generic institutional goal than as t
he personal goal of particular academic chymists: Guillaume Homberg, Nicola
s Lémery or Simon Boulduc. This paper will argue that one way in which
chymists managed to defend a reputation as inquirers into the nature of li
ving beings was by hitching their chariot to medical botany. Against portra
yals of Lémery as a chymist of a new stripe, who reformed and made respecta
ble this art, severing it from its medical roots, I will suggest that invol
vement with botanists was vital in conferring credibility upon chymica
l experimentation at this time, by presenting chymists' goals as aligned wi
th iatrobotanists' agenda of documenting the world's provision of healing p
lants.
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