TY  - BOOK
AU  - Starkey,George
AU  - Newman,William Royall
AU  - Principe,Lawrence
TI  - Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence
SN  - 9780226577104 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QD24.S73 A3 2004eb
U1  - 540/.1/12092 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Starkey, George,
KW  - Alchemists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - Collected Correspondence
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Science
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - Alchemie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editorial Practices; Abbreviations; Brief Chronology of Starkey's Life; Documents; 1. Letter to John Winthrop Jr.; 2. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; 3. Letter to Robert Boyle; 4. Letter to Johann Moriaen; 5. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; 6. Letters to Robert Boyle; 7. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; 8. Letter to Samuel Hartlib; 9. Letter to Frederick Clodius; 10. Laboratory Notebook; 10a. "A Perfect Day Booke"; 11. Laboratory Notebook; 12. Laboratory Notebook; 13. Prefaces to the Epistle to King Edward Unfolded; 14. Laboratory Notebook Fragment
N2  - 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
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