P. J. Kasteleyn and the "Oeconomics" of Dutch Chemistry

Abstract

This paper charts the apothecary Petrus Johannes Kasteleyn's attempts to stimulate greater interest in chemistry among the Dutch at the end of the eighteenth century. Well informed, especially about German developments in chemistry and the broader "oeconomic" reforms with which it was oftern connected, Kasteleyn aimed at a combined goal of material and moral progress by advocating a programme of chemical education and use in which theory and practice were inextricably linked. Indeed, by theory, Kasteleyn meant practically oriented ideas and generalisations that leant applied chemistry productive organisation rather than the fundamental claims of philosophical chemistry. Of particular interest along these lines is that Kasteleyn considered that the "new" chemistry's theoretical aggressiveness impeded productivity.

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