The Aspiring Adept : : Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest / / Lawrence Principe.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON PRIMARY SOURCES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY: A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories
- CHAPTER I: Boyle Spagyricized
- CHAPTER II: Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist
- CHAPTER III: The Dialogue on Transmutation, Kinds of Transmutations, and Boyle's Beliefs
- CHAPTER IV: Adepti, Aspirants, and Cheats
- CHAPTER V: Boyle and Alchemical Practice
- CHAPTER V: I Motivations: Truth, Medicine, and Religion
- EPILOGUE: A NEW BOYLE AND A NEW ALCHEMY
- APPENDIX 1: Robert Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals
- APPENDIX 2: Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyle's Other Chrysopoetic Writings
- APPENDIX 3: Dialogue on the Converse with Angels Aided by the Philosophers' Stone
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX