Alchemy tried in the fire : Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry /
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| Author / Creator: | Newman, William R., 1955-, author |
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| Edition: | Paperback ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2005, c2002. |
| Description: | xiv, [2], 344 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7713076 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Worlds Apart Boyle's Portrayal of His Relationship to Chymistry Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Number, Weight, Measure, and Experiment in Chymistry: From the Medievals to Van Helmont Testing, Analysis, and Assaying in Late Medieval Alchemy Alexander von Suchten and the Sixteenth-Century Synthesis of Chymical Traditions Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Art, Nature, and Experiment
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Theory and Practice: Starkey's Laboratory Methodology
- The Use and Format of Starkey's Notebooks
- Starkey's Laboratory
- Starkey's Experimental Methodology: Conjectural Processes and Fiery Refutations Quantitative Methods and Analyses in Transmutational Alchemy
- The Volatilization of Alkalies and Starkey's
- Grand Design for Medicine Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Scholasticism, Metallurgy, and Secrecy in the Laboratory: The Style and Origin of Starkey's Notebooks
- Sources of Starkey's Industrial Chymistry
- The Structure of Starkey's Laboratory Notebooks Starkey and Textual Authority
- The Place of Divine Authority in the Laboratory
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Starkey, Boyle, and Chymistry in the Hartlib Circle George Starkey and the Development of Boyle's Early Chymistry
- The Role of Benjamin Worsley in Boyle's "Chymical Education" Hartlib's "Chymical Son"
- Frederick Clodius and Boyle
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6. The Legacy of Van Helmont's and Starkey's Chymistry: Boyle, Homberg, and the Chemical Revolution
- The Chymistry of Salts in Boyle and Van Helmont
- A Helmontian Background to the Chemical Revolution Conclusions Conclusion Works Cited
- Index