Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence:
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Main Author: Starkey, George (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2004
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Item Description: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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 352 pages)
ISBN:0226577015
0226577104
9780226577012
9780226577104

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