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Alchemy at the service of mining technology in seventeenth-century Europe, according to the works of Martine de Bertereau and Jean du Chastelet

Valderrama, Ignacio Miguel Pascual

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Title
Alchemy at the service of mining technology in seventeenth-century Europe, according to the works of Martine de Bertereau and Jean du Chastelet
Author(s)
Valderrama, Ignacio Miguel Pascual
Contributor(s)
Pérez-Pariente, Joaquín
Issue Date
2012-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • History
  • Chemistry
  • Review alchemy mining chastelet martine bertereau
Abstract
A review. This work revisits the life and works of the baron and baroness of Beausoleil, Jean du Chastelet and Martine de Bertereau, alchemists, geologists and mining engineers, active in the first half of the seventeenth century. The primary and, to date, most important source on the couple's activities are the autobiog. notes included in the work La Restitution de Pluton, published by Bertereau himself in 1640. This paper attempts to place the couple's activities in the contemporary historical and scientific context, with the help of hitherto unknown archival documents, to afford in this way a more accurate perspective of their contributions to alchemy and mining.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127821
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2012v037p001
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Copyright 2012 Division of the History of Chemistry

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Bulletin for the History of Chemistry: Volume 37, Number 1, 2012 PRIMARY