Lawrence M. Principe Select Bibliography

 



 

 

--- 1987. " "Chemical translation" and the role of Impurities in Alchemy: Examples from Basil Valentine's Triumph-Wagen", Ambix, 34 (1987), pp. 21-30.

 

--- 1990. "The Gold Process: Directions in the Study of Robert Boyle's Alchemy", in Z. R. W. M. von Martels (ed.), Alchemy Revisited, Leiden, Brill, pp.200-205.

 

--- 1992. "Robert Boyle's Alchemical Secrecy: Codes, Ciphers and Concealments", Ambix, 39 (1992), pp. 63-74.

 

--- 1994. "Boyle's Alchemical Pursuits", in M. Hunter (ed.), Robert Boyle Reconsidered, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 91-105.

  

--- 1998 a. "Diversity in Alchemy: The Case of Gaston 'Claveus' DuClos : A Scholastic Mercurialist Chrysopœian", in A. G. Debus et M. T. Walton (eds.), Reading the Book of Nature, Kirksville, 1998, pp. 181-200.

 

--- 1998 b. The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest, Princeton (NJ), Princeton UP.

 

--- 1998 (avec W. R. Newman). "Alchemy vs. Chemistry: The Etymological Origines of a Historiographic Mistake", Early Science and Medicine, 3 (1998), pp. 32-65.

 

--- 2000 a. "The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton: Alternate Approaches and Divergent Deployments", in M. J. Osler (ed.), Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, pp. 201-220.

 

--- 2000 b. "Daniel Georg Morhof's Analysis and Defence of Transmutational Alchemy", in Françoise Waquet et al., Mapping the World of Learning: The Polyhistor of Daniel Georg Morhof, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, pp. 139-153.

 

--- 2000 c. "Apparatus and Reproducibility in Alchemy", in F. L. Holmes & T. H. Levere (eds.), Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry, Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, pp. 55-74.

 

--- 2001 (& W. R. Newman). "Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy", in W. R. Newman & A. Grafton (eds.), Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, pp. 385-431. 

 

--- 2002. "Wilhelm Homberg: Chymical Corpuscularianism and Chrysopoeia in the Eighteenth Century", in C. Lüthy et al. (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, Leiden, Brill, 2002, pp. 535-556.

 

--- 2002 (& W. R. Newman). Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry, Chicago, Chicago UP.

 

--- 2004. "Reflections on Newton's Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy", J. E. Force & S. Hutton (eds.), Newton and Newtonianism, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp. 205-219.

 

--- (forthcoming). "Chacun à son goût : Theory and Practice in Early Modern Chemistry", paper read at the international colloquium De l'Alchimia de Libavius au phlogiston de Stahl (Louvain-la-Neuve, 21-22 nov. 1997).

 

 

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