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Alchemy Tried In The Fire William R Newman Lawrence M Principe

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 25.55 MB

Pages: 361

Author: William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe

ISBN: 9780226577029, 0226577023

Language: English

Year: 2005

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Alchemy Tried In The Fire William R Newman Lawrence M Principe by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe 9780226577029, 0226577023 instant download after payment.

William Newman and Lawrence Principe reveal the hitherto hidden laboratory experiments of a famous alchemist and argue that many of the principles and practices characteristic of modern chemistry derive from alchemy. 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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