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| Starkey's Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 09:39 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"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."
https://www.perlego.com/book/1975024/alc...ndence-pdf
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| Jo Herlihy - Alchemy: A Search for Truth |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-06-2024, 05:27 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"From the early days of the Roman Empire through to the early 1700s, why did some of the most creative minds turn to alchemy? The search for how to make gold through this experimental practice will have been, without doubt, very alluring. But what else did people hope to discover? This is the story of the people, the books, the controversies and the dangers surrounding the secretive art of alchemy and the search for truth explored through the history of ideas, philosophy and religion. What emerges is a surprising story about the many inter-weaving influences, heresies and orthodoxies that shaped Western Philosophy and Science."
https://tinyurl.com/bduandjn
https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/ne...0460260169
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