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Gehennical fire : the lives of George Starkey, an American alchemist in the scientific revolution

Both the quest for natural knowledge and the aspiration to alchemical wisdom played crucial roles in the scientific revolution, as William R. Newman demonstrates in this work on George Starkey (1628-1665), America's first famous scientist.
Print Book, English, 2003
University of Chicago Press ed View all formats and editions
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003
Biographies
xxiv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780226577142, 0226577147
1077955513
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994