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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 transcript...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Starkey, George, 1627-1665
Other Authors: Newman, William R., 1955-, Principe, Lawrence
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Latín
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Starkey, George, > 1627-1665 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Starkey, George, > 1627-1665 > Correspondence.
Starkey, George, > 1627-1665
Alchemists > United States > Biography.
Alchemy.
Alchemy
Alchimie.
alchemy.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Alchemists
Alchemie.
United States
Collected Correspondence
Personal correspondence
Biographies
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 transcriptions of Starkey's texts, their translations, and valuable commentary for the modern reader. Dispelling the myth that alchemy was an irrational enterprise, this remarkable collection of laboratory notebooks and correspondence reveals the otherwise hidden methodologies of one of the seventeenth century's mos.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 352 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226577104
0226577104

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