The aspiring adept :
Principe, Lawrence.
The aspiring adept : Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals / Dialogue on the transmutation of metals Lawrence M. Principe. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998. - xiv, 339 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-333) and index.
Alchemy and Chemistry: A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories -- Boyle Spagyricized -- Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist -- The Dialogue on Transmutation, Kinds of Transmutations, and Boyle's Beliefs -- Adepti, Aspirants, and Cheats -- Boyle and Alchemical Practice -- Motivations: Truth, Medicine, and Religion -- Epilogue: A New Boyle and a New Alchemy -- Robert Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals -- Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyle's Other Chrysopoetic Writings -- Dialogue on the Converse with Angels Aided by the Philosophers' Stone. Ch. I. Ch. II. Ch. III. Ch. IV. Ch. V. Ch. VI. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3.
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.
069101678X (cl : alk. paper)
97041793
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 --Contributions in alchemy.
Transmutation (Chemistry)
Chemistry--History--Great Britain--17th century.
QD24.B685 / P75 1998
540/.1/1202 B
The aspiring adept : Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals / Dialogue on the transmutation of metals Lawrence M. Principe. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998. - xiv, 339 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-333) and index.
Alchemy and Chemistry: A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories -- Boyle Spagyricized -- Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist -- The Dialogue on Transmutation, Kinds of Transmutations, and Boyle's Beliefs -- Adepti, Aspirants, and Cheats -- Boyle and Alchemical Practice -- Motivations: Truth, Medicine, and Religion -- Epilogue: A New Boyle and a New Alchemy -- Robert Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals -- Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyle's Other Chrysopoetic Writings -- Dialogue on the Converse with Angels Aided by the Philosophers' Stone. Ch. I. Ch. II. Ch. III. Ch. IV. Ch. V. Ch. VI. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3.
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.
069101678X (cl : alk. paper)
97041793
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 --Contributions in alchemy.
Transmutation (Chemistry)
Chemistry--History--Great Britain--17th century.
QD24.B685 / P75 1998
540/.1/1202 B