Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence
University of Chicago Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-226-57701-2 | eISBN: 978-0-226-57710-4 (all)
Library of Congress Classification QD24.S73A3 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 540.112092
Cloth: 978-0-226-57701-2 | eISBN: 978-0-226-57710-4 (all)
Library of Congress Classification QD24.S73A3 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 540.112092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 most influential alchemists.
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 most influential alchemists.
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