The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical QuestPrinceton University Press, 05 հնս, 2018 թ. - 340 էջ 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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ALCHEM Y AND CHEMISTRY A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories | 8 |
Boyle Spagyricized | 11 |
Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist | 27 |
The Dialogue on Transmutation Kinds of Transmutations and Boyles Beliefs | 63 |
Adepti Aspirants and Cheats | 91 |
Boyle and Alchemical Practice | 138 |
Motivations Truth Medicine and Religion | 181 |
A New Boyle and a New Alchemy | 214 |
APPENDIX 1 Robert Boyles Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals | 223 |
APPENDIX 2 Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyles Other Chrysopoetic Writings | 296 |
APPENDIX 3 Dialogue on the Converse wit hAngels Aided by the Philosophers Stone | 310 |
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