Allen G. Debus
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American historian of science
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Allen G. Debus's Degrees
- PhD History of Science University of Chicago
- Masters History of Science University of Chicago
- Bachelors History University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Allen George Debus was an American historian of science, known primarily for his work on the history of chemistry and alchemy. In 1991 he was honored at the University of Chicago with an academic conference held in his name. Paul H. Theerman and Karen Hunger Parshall edited the proceedings, and Debus contributed his autobiography of which this article is a digest.
Allen G. Debus's Published Works
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Published Works
- The English Paracelsians (1965) (123)
- The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1977) (49)
- Man and nature in the Renaissance (1978) (44)
- The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France (1991) (37)
- Chemistry and Medical Debate van Helmont to Boerhaave (2001) (35)
- Hermeticism and the Renaissance : intellectual history and the occult in early modern Europe (1988) (32)
- Mathematics and Nature in the Chemical Texts of the Renaissance (1968) (31)
- The Paracelsian Aerial Niter (1964) (30)
- READING THE BOOK OF NATURE The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution (1998) (30)
- Science and education in the seventeenth century: The Webster-Ward debate, (1970) (27)
- World who's who in science : a biographical dictionary of notable scientists from antiquity to the present (1968) (25)
- Chemists, Physicians, and Changing Perspectives on the Scientific Revolution (1998) (23)
- Solution Analyses Prior to Robert Boyle (1962) (16)
- Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance : essays to honor Walter Pagel (1972) (15)
- Chemistry, alchemy and the new philosophy, 1550-1700 : studies in the history of science and medicine (1987) (14)
- Circulation physiology and medical chemistry in England 1650–1680 (1975) (12)
- Paleoimagery: The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Art (2002) (10)
- ROBERT FLUDD AND THE USE OF GILBERT'S DE MAGNETE IN THE WEAPON-SALVE CONTROVERSY. (1964) (10)
- Antimony in Medical History: An Account of the Medical Uses of Antimony and Its Compounds since Early Times to the Present (review) (2000) (10)
- An Elizabethan history of medical chemistry (1962) (10)
- Thomas Sherley's philosophical essay (1672): Helmontian mechanism as the basis of a new philosophy. (1980) (9)
- The Paracelsian Compromise in Elizabethan England (1960) (9)
- Harvey and fludd: The irrational factor in the rational science of the seventeenth century (1970) (9)
- The Chemical Philosophers: Chemical Medicine from Paracelsus to Van Helmont (1974) (7)
- Gabriel Plattes and His Chemical Theory of the Formation of the Earth's Crust (1961) (7)
- The relationship of science-history and history of science (1971) (7)
- Chemistry and the universities in the seventeenth century. (1990) (6)
- Alchemy and chemistry in the seventeenth century : papers read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 12, 1966 (1966) (6)
- Robert Fludd and the Circulation of the Blood (1961) (5)
- The Chemical Promise: Experiment and Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy, 1550-1800 (2008) (5)
- The Paracelsians in eighteenth century France: a Renaissance tradition in the age of the Enlightenment. (1981) (5)
- The Common Scientist in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708. K. Theodore Hoppen (1972) (5)
- The significance of chemical history. (1985) (5)
- The chemical dream of the Renaissance (1968) (5)
- A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602) (review) (2005) (5)
- Experiencing nature : proceedings of a conference in honor of Allen G. Debus (1997) (4)
- Alchemy and early modern chemistry : papers from Ambix (2006) (4)
- The history of chemistry and the history of science. (1971) (4)
- Renaissance Chemistry and the Work of Robert Fludd (1967) (4)
- Scientific truth and occult tradition: the medical world of Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1799). (1982) (4)
- KEY TO TWO WORLDS: ROBERT FLUDD'S WEATHER-GLASS (1982) (4)
- Motion in the Chemical Texts of the Renaissance (1973) (4)
- A Forgotten Chapter in the Introduction of the New Chemistry in Italy (1963) (3)
- Theatrum chemicum Britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language, faithfully collected into one volume with annotations thereon (1967) (3)
- Alchemy and the Historian of Science. (1968) (3)
- The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest, Including Boyle's "Lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation of Metals (review) (1999) (3)
- The complete entertainment discography, from 1897 to 1942 (1973) (3)
- Book Review:Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Frances A. Yates (1964) (2)
- Atomism in England from Hariot to Newton. Robert Hugh Kargon. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966. 178 pp. $6.75 (1967) (2)
- The history of science today. (1984) (2)
- The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (review) (1996) (2)
- The Paracelsians and the chemists: the chemical dilemma in Renaissance medicine. (1972) (2)
- Sir Thomas Browne and the Study of Colour Indicators (1962) (2)
- Quantification and medical motivation: factors in the interpretation of early modern chemistry. (1989) (2)
- Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (review) (2007) (2)
- Paracelsus and the chemical revolution in sixteenth-century medicine. (2002) (2)
- John Woodall, Paracelsian Surgeon (1962) (2)
- Chemical, Medical and Pharmaceutical Books printed before 1800 in the Collections of the University of Wisconsin Libraries. Ed. John Neu. Pp. viii + 280. Madison and Milwaukee: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. (1966) (1)
- The pharmaceutical revolution of the Renaissance. (1976) (1)
- From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey (1997) (1)
- Essay Review: Alchemy and the Historian of Science: Elias Ashmole (1967) (1)
- The "Geber" tradition in western alchemy and chemistry. (1984) (1)
- A Further Note on Palingenesis: The Account of Ebenezer Sibly in the Illustration of Astrology (1792) (1973) (1)
- Walter Pagel (1898-1983). (1983) (1)
- Some Comments on the Contemporary Helmontian Renaissance (1972) (1)
- "The drug store cabaret:" pharmacy and vaudeville in 1920. (1977) (1)
- Historical Dinosaurs: Episodes in Discovery and Restoration (1993) (1)
- Walter Pagel, M.D.—12 November 1898–25 March 1983 (1984) (1)
- Robert Fludd and his Philosophicall key : being a transcription of the manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge (1979) (1)
- Book Review: A History of Chemistry (1963) (1)
- Chemistry, pharmacy and cosmology: a Renaissance union. (1978) (1)
- Science, Medicine, and Society in the Renaissance Essays to Honor Walter Pagel. Edited by Allen G. Debus (1972) (0)
- Olai Borrichii itinerarium 1660–65: the journal of the Danish polyhistor Ole Borch (1984) (0)
- Quantification and medical motivation, factors in the interpretation of early modern chemistry. (1989) (0)
- Michael Hunter (éd.), Robert Boyle reconsidered (Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994) (1996) (0)
- Sciences de la Renaissance (1973) (0)
- New Light on William Harvey (1976) (0)
- Book Review:William Cooper's A Catalogue of Chymical Books, 1673-88: A Verified Edition Stanton J. Linden (1988) (0)
- Book Review:The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England Robert E. Schofield (1965) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2002) (0)
- Islamic scientific history: where to next? (1989) (0)
- Book Review:The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century A. Wear, R. K. French, I. M. Lonie (1986) (0)
- Voyaging in Strange Seas of Thought (2008) (0)
- The history of science today. (1986) (0)
- The C.D. O’Malley International Symposium on the History of Medicine in England in the Seventeenth Century (1972) (0)
- The place of the apothecary in the evolution of medical practice (1983) (0)
- Book Review:Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella D. F. Walker (1962) (0)
- Myth, allegory, and scientific truth: an alchemical tradition in the period of the scientific revolution. (1987) (0)
- Book Review:A History of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London H. Charles Cameron, E. Ashworth Underwood (1964) (0)
- The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640.Mordechai Feingold (1985) (0)
- Elsie Janis, the first world war and the introduction of jazz to England (1973) (0)
- : ISIS Cumulative Bibliography: A Bibliography of the History of Science Formed from ISIS Critical Bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65 (1973) (0)
- Some comments on the contemporary Helmontian renaissance [Essay review]. (1972) (0)
- History with a purpose: the fate of Paracelsus. (1984) (0)
- THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDA1l0NS OF DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOUrrION (2009) (0)
- :Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (2005) (0)
- And Boyle Stood on the Shoulders of Whom? (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Essays and Papers in the History of Modern Science Henry Guerlac (1979) (0)
- Michael Scotby Lynn Thorndike (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Joan Baptista van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine Walter Pagel (1983) (0)
- Book Review:The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age Frances A. Yates (1981) (0)
- , 1 the 1970 s and 1980 s witnessed the work of (2011) (0)
- Mi Gyung Kim.Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.) 624 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. £36.50, $55 (cloth). (2005) (0)
- A tribute to Morris Fishbein. (1977) (0)
- The Mathematical Preface to . . .Euclid (1570) (1976) (0)
- Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (review) (2003) (0)
- Robert Fludd and the Chemical Philosophy of the Renaissance / Allen G. Debus. (1967) (0)
- Alchemy and iatrochemistry: persistent traditions in the 17th and 18th centuries. (1992) (0)
- Medicine and Alchemy (2008) (0)
- A History of Chemistry, II. (1963) (0)
- Method for preparation of eliminable waste without pollution (1982) (0)
- Books Received (1968) (0)
- 17th-Century Atomic Theory. (Book Reviews: Atomism in England from Hariot to Newton) (1967) (0)
- 17th-Century Atomic Theory: Atomism in England from Hariot to Newton . Robert Hugh Kargon. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966. 178 pp. $6.75. (1967) (0)
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