Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence [[electronic resource] /] / George Starkey ; edited by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459069003321
• Autore: Starkey George <1627-1665.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0-226-57710-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NewmanWilliam Royall; PrincipeLawrence
• Disciplina: 540.112092; 540/.1/12092
• Soggetti: Alchemists - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Editorial Practices -- Abbreviations -- Brief Chronology of Starkey's Life -- 1. Letter to John Winthrop Jr., 2 August 1648 -- 2. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; before Spring 1651 -- 3. Letter to Robert Boyle, Containing "The Key"; ca. April /May 1651 -- 4. Letter to Johann Moriaen, 30 May 1651 -- 5. Laboratory Notebook Fragment, December 1651 -- 6. Letters to Robert Boyle, January-February 1652 -- 7. Laboratory Notebook Fragment; February-March 1652 -- 8. Letter to Samuel Hartlib, Undated (ca. 1652-55) -- 9. Letter to Frederick Clodius, Undated (ca. 1653-54) -- 10. Laboratory Notebook, early 1650's, ca. July-August 1653, and January-March 1656 -- 10a. "A Perfect Day Booke," 11-14 December 1655 -- 11. Laboratory Notebook, before mid-1653-March 1656 -- 12. Laboratory Notebook, ca. November 1654 -August 1656 -- 13. Prefaces to the Epistle to King Edward Unfolded, 1657 -- 14. Laboratory Notebook Fragment, ca. late 1657-58 -- 15. Autobiographical and Laboratory Notes, September 1658 to 1660 -- 16. Letters to Philip Frith, January-May 1663 -- Chymical Symbols -- Glossary -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 most influential alchemists.