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HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Pre modern science does not have the best of reputations. Historians must find ways to explain why we shouldn't just ignore everything that happened before, say, the 17 century. Alchemy was first distinguished from chemistry in the seventeenth century. Early modern scholars offered bogus etymologies for salt and astrology.

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