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Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence /
George Starkey-chymistry tutor to Robert Boyle, author of immensely popular alchemical treatises, and probably early America's most important scientist-reveals in these pages the daily laboratory experimentation of a seventeenth-century alchemist. The editors present in this volume transcriptio...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2010]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Editorial Practices
- Abbreviations
- Brief Chronology of Starkey's Life
- Documents
- 1. Letter to John Winthrop Jr., 2 August 1648
- 2. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; before Spring 1651
- 3. Letter to Robert Boyle, Containing "The Key"; ca. April /May 1651
- 4. Letter to Johann Moriaen, 30 May 1651
- 5. Laboratory Notebook Fragment, December 1651
- 6. Letters to Robert Boyle, January-February 1652
- 7. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; February-March 1652
- 8. Letter to Samuel Hartlib, Undated (ca. 1652-55)
- 9. Letter to Frederick Clodius, Undated (ca. 1653-54)
- 10. Laboratory Notebook, early 1650s, ca. July-August 1653, and January-March 1656
- 10a. "A Perfect Day Booke," 11-14 December 1655
- 11. Laboratory Notebook, before mid-1653-March 1656
- 12. Laboratory Notebook, ca. November 1654 -August 1656
- 13. Prefaces to the Epistle to King Edward Unfolded, 1657
- 14. Laboratory Notebook Fragment, ca. late 1657-58
- 15. Autobiographical and Laboratory Notes, September 1658 to 1660
- 16. Letters to Philip Frith, January-May 1663
- Chymical Symbols
- Glossary
- Index