TY - JOUR AU - Maar, Juergen Heinrich PY - 2022/12/07 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Johann Beckmann (1739-1811) and Modern Chemical Technology JF - Substantia JA - Substantia VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Historical Articles DO - 10.36253/Substantia-1870 UR - https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/1870 SP - 79-92 AB - <p>Modern chemical technology, in the humanistic spirit of the Enlightenment, begins with Johann Beckmann (1739-1811). It followed pre-modern technologies associated with Cameralism and <em>Chemia Applicata. </em>Beckmann’s holistic approach to technology, expressed in “Anleitung zur Technologie” (1777) and “Entwurf einer Allgemeinen Technologie” (1806), also engages with economic, social, cultural and ethical problems, giving the term ‘technology’ a new meaning. Viewed with skepticism in his time, there was a revival of Beckmann’s ideas by Franz Exner (1840-1913) in 1878. Only in recent decades his contribution to technology was more extensively studied. Examples of Beckmann’s ideas are presented.</p> ER -