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Alchemy Tried in the Fire - Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (Hardcover)
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Alchemy Tried in the Fire - Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (Hardcover)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science
Society.
What actually took place in the private laboratory of a
mid-seventeenth century alchemist? How did he direct his quest
after the secrets of Nature? What instruments and theoretical
principles did he employ?
Using, as their guide, the previously misunderstood interactions
between Robert Boyle, widely known as "the father of chemistry,"
and George Starkey, an alchemist and the most prominent American
scientific writer before Benjamin Franklin as their guide, Newman
and Principe reveal the hitherto hidden laboratory operations of a
famous alchemist and argue that many of the principles and
practices characteristic of modern chemistry derive from alchemy.
By analyzing Starkey's extraordinary laboratory notebooks, the
authors show how this American "chymist" translated the wildly
figurative writings of traditional alchemy into quantitative,
carefully reasoned laboratory practice--and then encoded his own
work in allegorical, secretive treatises under the name of
Eirenaeus Philalethes. The intriguing "mystic" Joan Baptista Van
Helmont--a favorite of Starkey, Boyle, and even of
Lavoisier--emerges from this study as a surprisingly central figure
in seventeenth-century "chymistry." A common emphasis on
quantification, material production, and analysis/synthesis, the
authors argue, illustrates a continuity of goals and practices from
late medieval alchemy down to and beyond the Chemical Revolution.
For anyone who wants to understand how alchemy was actually
practiced during the Scientific Revolution and what it contributed
to the development of modern chemistry, "Alchemy Tried in the Fire"
will be a veritable philosopher's stone.
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