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  Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006
 

Pomethean Ambitions: Alchemy & the Quest to Perfect Nature

 

Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004
 
             
  Gehennical Fire Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, An American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2003
First Edition, Cambridge, MA
Harvard University Press, 1994
Reviewed - New York Review of Books, Nov. 16, 1995, pp. 38-40; Times Higher Education Supplement,
June 30, 1995, p. 27, etc.
  Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, & the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry Alchemy Tried in the Fire:
Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry

(with Lawrence M. Principe)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
 
     
  Secrets of Nature: Astrology & Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Secrets of Nature:
Astrology and Alchemy
in Early Modern Europe

(volume of articles co-edited
with Anthony Grafton)
Cambridge, MA
MIT Press, 2001
 
 
 
   

Articles:

"From Alchemy to 'Chymistry,'" in The Cambridge History of Science: Early Modern Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), vol. 3, pp. 497-517.

"Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis" (with Lawrence M. Principe), in Wrong for the Right Reasons (volume of articles edited by Jed. Z. Buchwald and Allan Franklin) (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), pp. 73-89.

"The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey" (with Lawrence Principe), in Reworking the Bench: Research Notebooks in the History of Science (volume of articles edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger) Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003), pp. 25-41.

“The Background to Newton’s Chymistry,” in The Cambridge Companion to Newton, I. Bernard Cohen and George Smith, edd. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 358-369.

“Corpuscular Alchemy and the Tradition of Aristotle’s Meteorology, with Special Reference to Daniel Sennert,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15(2001), pp. 145-153.  

 “Experimental Corpuscular Theory in Aristotelian Alchemy: From Geber to Sennert,” in Late Medieval and
Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theory
(volume of articles co-edited with Christoph Luethy and
John E. Murdoch) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001), pp. 291-329. 

 (With Lawrence Principe), “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy,” in Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (volume of articles co-edited with Antony Grafton), (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 385-431. 

 "Alchemy, Assaying, and Experiment,"in Trevor H. Levere and Frederic L. Holmes, edd., Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), pp. 35-54.

 “Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius,” in Peter Galison and
Emily Thompson, The Architecture of Science, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), pp. 59-77. 

 "The Homunculus and His Forebears: Wonders of Art and Nature" in Natural Particulars, Nature and the Disciplines in Early Modern Europe, in  Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi, edd. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), pp. 321-345. 

 "The Place of Alchemy in the Current Literature on Experiment," in Experimental Essays - Versuche zum Experiment, Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Steinle, edd. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1998), pp. 9-33.

 (With Lawrence Principe), "Alchemy vs. Chemistry: The Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake,"
in Early Science and Medicine 3(1998), pp. 32-65.

  "Alchemy, Domination, and Gender," in A House Built on Sand, Noretta Koertge, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 216-226.

  "Art, Nature, and Experiment Among Some Aristotelian Alchemists," in Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science: Studies on the Occasion of John E. Murdoch's Seventieth Birthday, Edith Sylla and
Michael McVaugh, edd. (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 305-317.

 "An Overview of Roger Bacon's Alchemy," in Roger Bacon and the Sciences, Jeremiah Hackett,
ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 317-336.

 "The Alchemical Sources of Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Philosophy," Annals of Science, 53 (1996),
567-585.

 "Scienza, Tecnologia e Filosofia nella Ricerca Alchemica," (trans. of Newman, 1989), in L'Arte del Sole e della Luna, Chiara Crisciani and Michela Pereira, edd. (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1996),
pp. 293-312. 

 ““Decknamen or pseudochemical Language”?  Eirenaeus Philalethes and Carl Jung,” Revue d’histoire des sciences 49(1996), pp. 159-188. 

 "The Philosophers' Egg: Theory and Practice in the Alchemy of Roger Bacon," Micrologus, 3 (1995),
pp. 75-101.

 "George Starkey and the Selling of Secrets," in Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation,
Mark Greengrass, et. al., edd., (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 193-210.

 "The Corpuscular Transmutational Theory of Eirenaeus Philalethes," in Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. P. N. Rattansi and A. Clericuzio, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994),
pp. 161-182.

 Vita of George Starkey, in Harvard Magazine, Summer-October, 1994, pp. 46-47.

 "The Alchemy of Roger Bacon and the Tres Epistolae Attributed to Him," in Comprendre et Maîtriser la
Nature au Moyen Age
(Geneva: Droz, 1994), pp. 461-479.

 "Robert Boyle's Debt to Corpuscular Alchemy," in Robert Boyle Reconsidered, ed. Michael Hunter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 107-118.

 “Arabic Forgeries in the Seventeenth Century:  The Case of the Summa perfectionis,” in The "Arabick" Interest of the Natural Philosopher in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. G. A. Russell
(Leiden:  Brill, 1994), pp. 278-296.

 "L'influence de la Summa perfectionis du pseudo-Geber," in Alchimie et philosophie à la renaissance,
ed. Jean-Claude Margolin and Sylvain Matton (Paris: Vrin, 1993), pp. 65-77.

 "The Corpuscular Theory of J. B. Van Helmont and Its Medieval Sources," Vivarium, 31(1993),
pp. 161-191.

 "Prophecy and Alchemy: the Origin of Eirenaeus Philalethes," Ambix, November, 1990, pp. 97-115.

 "Technology and Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages," Isis, 80(1989), pp. 423-445.

 "Newton's Clavis as Starkey's 'Key,' " Isis, 78(1987), pp. 564-574.

 "The Genesis of the Summa perfectionis," Les archives internationales d'histoire des sciences,
35(1985), pp. 240-302.

 "New Light on the Identity of Geber," Sudhoffs Archiv für die Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, 69(1985), pp. 76-90.

 "An Introduction to Alchemical Apparatus in the Late Middle Ages," Technologia, 1983, pp. 82-92.

 "Thomas Vaughan as an Interpreter of Agrippa von Nettesheim," Ambix, 29(1982), pp. 125-140.

 

 

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