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The aspiring adept : Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals
- Title
- The aspiring adept : Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals / Lawrence M. Principe.
- Author
- Principe, Lawrence.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QD24.B685 P75 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Description
- xiv, 339 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Chemistry
- Chemistry > Great Britain
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
- 1600-1699
- Boyle, Robert
- Boyle, Robert, (1627-1691)
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 > Contribucions a l'alquímia
- Boyle, Robert 1627-1691
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Chemistry > history
- Alchemy
- Alchimie
- Chimie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle
- Química > Història > Gran Bretanya > S. XVII
- Alquímia
- Metalen
- Transmutatie
- Alchemie
- Chemie
- alchemy
- Chemistry > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-333) and index.
- Contents
- Alchemy and Chemistry: A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories -- Ch. I. Boyle Spagyricized -- Ch. II. Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist -- Ch. III. The Dialogue on Transmutation, Kinds of Transmutations, and Boyle's Beliefs -- Ch. IV. Adepti, Aspirants, and Cheats -- Ch. V. Boyle and Alchemical Practice -- Ch. VI. Motivations: Truth, Medicine, and Religion -- Epilogue: A New Boyle and a New Alchemy -- App. 1. Robert Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals -- App. 2. Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyle's Other Chrysopoetic Writings -- App. 3. Dialogue on the Converse with Angels Aided by the Philosophers' Stone.
- ISBN
- 069101678X
- 9780691016788
- 0691050821
- 9780691050829
- LCCN
- 97041793
- OCLC
- ocm37837623
- 37837623
- SCSB-364503
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library