The aspiring adept: Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest
The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. Boyle has traditionally been considered, along with Newton, a founder of modern science b...
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Zusammenfassung: | The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. Boyle has traditionally been considered, along with Newton, a founder of modern science because of his mechanical philosophy and his experimentation with the air-pump and other early scientific apparatus. However, Lawrence Principe shows that his alchemical quest - hidden first by Boyle's own codes and secrecy, and later suppressed or ignored - positions him more accurately in the intellectual and cultural crossroads of the seventeenth century. |
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THE ASPIRING ADEPT ROBERT BOYLE AND HIS ALCHEMICAL QUEST INCLUDING
BOYLE'S "LOST" DIALOGUE ON THE TRANSMUTATION OF METALS LAWRENCE M.
PRINCIPE P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S P R I N C E T O
N , N E W J E R S E Y CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX NOTE ON PR/MARY
SOURCES XI ABBREVIATIONS XIII INTRODUCTION 3 ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY A
CRUCIAL NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY AND CATEGORIES 8 CHAPTER I BOYLE
SPAGYRICIZED 11 CHAPTER II SKEPTICAL OF THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST 27 TEXTUAL
CONFUSION IN THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST 28 CHYMISTS HIGH AND LOW 30 BOYLE'S
ARGUMENTS AND THEIR TARGETS 3 5 EVOLUTION OF BOYLE'S CHYMICAL THOUGHT
1661-1680 52 SUMMARY AND RAMIFICATIONS 58 CHAPTER III THE DIALOGUE ON
TRANSMUTATION, KINDS OF TRANSMUTATIONS, AND BOYLE'S BELIEFS 63 SYNOPSIS
OF THE DIALOGUE 65 THE SETTING 68 THE CHARACTERS 73 BOYLE AND VARIETIES
OF TRANSMUTATION 76 BOYLE AND THE DIFFIDENT EXPLANATION: THE DANGERS OF
PICKING AND CHOOSING 86 CONCLUSION 89 CHAPTER IV ADEPTI, ASPIRANTS, AND
CHEATS 91 TRANSMUTATION HISTORIES 93 BOYLE'S WITNESS OF PROJECTION 98
ALCHEMICAL CONTACTS 111 ALCHEMICAL PRETENDERS 113 CONCLUSION 136 CHAPTER
V BOYLE AND ALCHEMICAL PRACTICE 138 READING ALCHEMY 139 V1U CONTENTS
WRITING SECRETS 143 EXPERIMENTAL CHRYSOPOEIA 149 CONCLUSION 179 CHAPTER
VI MOTIVATIONS: TRUTH, MEDICINE, AND RELIGION 181 SERVICE TO NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY 181 "EXTRAORDINARY AND NOBLE MEDICINES" 186 SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY
188 ALCHEMY AS A MIDDLE-TERM 208 CONCLUSION 212 EPILOGUE A NEW BOYLE AND
A NEW ALCHEMY 214 APPENDIX 1 ROBERT BOYLE'S DIALOGUE ON THE
TRANSMUTATION AND MELIORATION OF METALS ITS INTRODUCTION 223 EDITORIAL
REMARKS AND CONVENTIONS 231 ROBERT BOYLE'S DIALOGUE ON THE TRANSMUTATION
AND MELIORATION OF METALS 233 TEXT OF THE DIALOGUE 235 TEXTUAL NOTES 290
APPENDIX 2 INTERVIEW ACCOUNTS OF TRANSMUTATION AND PREFACES TO BOYLE'S
OTHER CHRYSOPOETIC WRITINGS 296 PART I: INTERVIEW ACCOUNTS 296 PART II:
PREFACES TO CHRYSOPOETIC PROCESSES 300 TEXTUAL NOTES 307 APPENDIX 3
DIALOGUE ON THE CONVERSE WITH ANGELS AIDED BY THE PHILOSOPHERS' STONE
310 TEXTUAL NOTES 317 WORKS CITED 319 INDEX 335 |
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