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The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by Lawrence Principe
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After the death of the Honorable Robert Boyle on New Year's Eve 1691, his vast accumulation of personal papers and manuscripts had to be set in order.
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- Title The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest
- Author Lawrence Principe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 340
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2000-10-08
- ISBN 9780691050829 / 0691050821
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.16 x 0.86 in (23.55 x 15.65 x 2.18 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xiv, 339pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. Principe radically reinterprets Boyle's most famous work, The Sceptical Chymist, to show that it criticizes not alchemists, as…
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