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Abstract

An unabridged translation of a work of Nicolas Lémery (1645-1715) is presented for the first time in Spanish, wherein this French chemist and apothecary attempts an explanation on physical and chemical basis of several significant phenomena in Earth Sciences, such as earthquakes, subterranean fires, hurricanes, lightning and thunder. This explanation had a common cause for all the aforementioned phenomena: the processes of mineral fermentation, in this case of sulfur and iron, as a heat source, within the corpuscular theory of matter and mechanistic philosophy, and likewise it represents an interesting contribution of the influence of chemistry on the incipient development of experimental geology at the dawn of the 18th Century.

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Title
NICOLAS LÉMERY (1645-1715) Y SU TEORÍA FÍSICO-QUÍMICA SOBRE DIVERSOS FENÓMENOS DE INTERÉS PARA LAS CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA/Nicolas Lémery (1645-1715) and his Physical-chemical Theory about Different Phenomena for Earth Sciences
Author
Cruz, Cándido Manuel García
Pages
311-337
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
15767914
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1824531378
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2015