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

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1053-4385

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text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127821

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https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2012v037p001

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