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Article Evaluation: Wikipedia: WikiProject Physical Chemistry

Relavent?

I like how the page is organized

Distractions?

This page has questions on it that do not make sense because wikipedia is supposed to be a factual site. They used the word obviously which does not sound as professional as other wikipedia pages I have seen.

Improvements?

I would have liked to see a little overview of each category so that way the reader could quickly see if that is the wikilink they would like to visit.

Tone

The article seems to me to be unbiased and really lays out a good amount of articles and resources that help one dive into physical chemistry. It gives links to all topics being sure not to focus too hard on one particular topic or point.

Citations

I noticed that this wikipage in particular does not have any citations. Rather than that it just lists all the material in the page itself.

Upon clicking one of the links I found another article that does the same exact thing where it is just links to other pages. I would have liked to see more of where the information came from and just more information in general in these pages. They made it like a scavenger hunt.

Talk Page

The talk page was awesome, I learned more here than in the actual article. It was very helpful and the comments were constructive and well worded. Rather than just making the changes they left suggestions to the user so they can choose what they think is best for the page.

I made a submission to the talk page under the categories section.

Editing a Wikipedia Article: Andreas Labavius

Lead Section/Summary

Currently: Andreas Libavius or Andrew Libavius (c. 1555 – 25 July 1616) was a German physician and chemist.

Changed to: Andreas Libavius was born in Halle, Germany in c. 1550 and later died in July of 1616. Libavius was a renaissance man who spent time as a professor at the University of Jena teaching history and poetry. After which he became a physician at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg and later founded the Gymnasium at Coburg. Libavius was also an early form of chemist who practiced alchemy. He wrote a book entitled Alchemia (German for Alchemy) which is considered one of the first chemistry textbooks.

Life : The origional content from wikipedia will be in bold

Andreas Libavius (Libau) was born in Halle, Germany to his father, Johann Libavius (Libau), circa 1550 AD.^[1] His father, only a linen worker could not give Libavius an education because in this time period only the wealthy were able to get a higher education.^[2] Showing great intelligence as a child Livavius overcame his personal status and attended the University of Whittenburg at the age of eighteen in 1578.^[3]

In 1579 he entered the University of Jena where he studied philosophy, history and medicine. In 1581 he obtained the academic degree of magister artium and was named a poet laureate. Libavius went on to finish his medicinae doctor degree at the University of Basal in 1588. In the same year he became a professor at the Uiniversity of Jena teaching poetry and history.^[4]

After moving on from teaching in 1591 he moved to Rothenburg where he became a town physician at the Gymnasium at Rothenburg. It was here that Libavius was also awarded the title inspector of schools. This position lead to conflict with the rector of schools causing Libavius to move to Coburg in 1605 and joined the Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum where he later became the rector. He lived in Coburg from 1607 until his death in 1616.

Little is known about his personal life, but he did have two sons, Michael, and Andreas, who followed in his father's footsteps and became a teacher and physician. He also had two daughters, Susanna, and one whose name is not known.

Alchemy

Libavius is best known for his work as an alchemist above all else. Alchemy was an early science whose goals were to transform matter like turning base metals to gold.^[5] Alchemists also tried to find an elixir of life that would allow them to cure all disease.^[6] Although alchemy has many flaws this early science turned into what we know today as chemistry. Libavius believed that his studies in alchemy would help further advancements in the medical field.^[7]

In 1597 Libavius published Alchemia a textbook that summarized all the discoveries alchemists had made at this point. Alchemia was very well organized broken down into four parts, what to have in a laboratory, descriptions of procedures, chemical analysis, and transmutation. Publishing such a book was blasphemous as many alchemists wanted to keep their findings to themselves to prevent their findings from being misused. Libavius thought that knowledge should be shared if it could be used to help better mankind.

Libavius studies in alchemy lead to many new discoveries in chemistry. He discovered methods to prepare a number of chemicals like hydrochloric acid, ammonium sulfate and tin chloride.^[8] He also, recorded the dangers of alchemy as most of it was done in homes. Leading hime to propose a series of laboratories, called a chemical house, can make alchemy safer to practice.^[9]