TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,William Royall
AU  - Principe,Lawrence
TI  - Alchemy tried in the fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry 
SN  - 9780226577050 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QD18 .G7 N48 2002eb
U1  - 540/.942/09032 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Boyle, Robert,
KW  - Starkey, George,
KW  - Boyle, Robert.
KW  - Starkey, George.
KW  - Helmont, Jan Baptista van.
KW  - Van
KW  - swd
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - History, 17th Century
KW  - Science
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alchemie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-335) and index; Worlds apart -- Number, weight, measure, and experiment in chymistry; from the Medievals to Van Helmont -- Theory and practice; Starkey's laboratory methodology -- Scholasticism, metallurgy, and secrecy in the laboratory; the style and origin of Starkey's notebooks -- Starkey, Boyle, and chymistry in the Hartlib circle -- The legacy of Van Helmont's and Starkey's chymistry; Boyle, Homberg, and the chemical revolution
N2  - 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 labo
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