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Gehennical Fire

The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution

by William R. Newman

A biography of George Starkey, the Harvard-educated chymist who wrote under the name Eirenaeus Philalethes. Newman reconstructs his laboratory practice and his influence on Boyle and Newton, showing how 'Philalethes' became one of the most widely read alchemical authors of the seventeenth century.

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