Title Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence / George Starkey ; edited by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 352 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Starkey, George, 1627-1665 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Starkey, George, 1627-1665 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Starkey, George, 1627-1665 fast Subject Alchemists -- United States -- Biography Alchemy. Alchemy alchemy. SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology. Alchemy Alchemists Alchemie. SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Genre/Form Personal correspondence Biographies Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Form Electronic book Author Newman, William R., 1955- Principe, Lawrence ISBN 9780226577104 0226577104

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