The aspiring adept
Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals
by Lawrence Principe
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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.
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Alchemy, Chemistry, History, Boyle, robert, 1627-1691, Transmutation (chemistry), Chemistry, historyPeople
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The aspiring adept: Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals
1998, Princeton University Press
in English
069101678X 9780691016788
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-333) and index.
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