The “Discours Préliminaire” by Pierre Joseph Macquer (1718-1784)
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The French chemist Pierre Joseph Macquer (1718-1784), in addition to his interesting studies on different aspects of Chemistry, had carried out an important contribution to the modernization of this science through his orientations concerning the new nomenclature; these would be transcendental in the success of the Chemical Revolution at the end of the 18th Century. His reflections on the origins of Chemistry from Alchemy are collected in the Discours Préliminaire, with which one of his most important works begins, the Dictionnaire de Chimie (1778). Macquer carries out a simple, but complete journey, from Antiquity to those decisive years of the French Enlightenment, pointing out the etymology of the term, the authors closest to Alchemy, with its hermetic language, as well as other authors who were already beginning the unstoppable path towards Chemistry as a true science. In this paper, the complete translation into Spanish of that Discours is first presented, a document of special interest in the teaching of Chemistry in a historical context.
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