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- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
- NOTE ON PRIMARY SOURCES xi
- ABBREVIATIONS xiii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY: A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories 8
- CHAPTER I: Boyle Spagyricized 11
- CHAPTER II: Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist 27
- CHAPTER III: The Dialogue on Transmutation, Kinds of Transmutations, and Boyle's Beliefs 63
- CHAPTER IV: Adepti, Aspirants, and Cheats 91
- CHAPTER V: Boyle and Alchemical Practice 138
- CHAPTER V: I Motivations: Truth, Medicine, and Religion 181
- EPILOGUE: A NEW BOYLE AND A NEW ALCHEMY 214
- APPENDIX 1: Robert Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals 223
- APPENDIX 2: Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyle's Other Chrysopoetic Writings 296
- APPENDIX 3: Dialogue on the Converse with Angels Aided by the Philosophers' Stone 310
- WORKS CITED 319
- INDEX 335
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
- NOTE ON PRIMARY SOURCES xi
- ABBREVIATIONS xiii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY: A Crucial Note on Terminology and Categories 8
- CHAPTER I: Boyle Spagyricized 11
- CHAPTER II: Skeptical of the Sceptical Chymist 27
- CHAPTER III: The Dialogue on Transmutation, Kinds of Transmutations, and Boyle's Beliefs 63
- CHAPTER IV: Adepti, Aspirants, and Cheats 91
- CHAPTER V: Boyle and Alchemical Practice 138
- CHAPTER V: I Motivations: Truth, Medicine, and Religion 181
- EPILOGUE: A NEW BOYLE AND A NEW ALCHEMY 214
- APPENDIX 1: Robert Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals 223
- APPENDIX 2: Interview Accounts of Transmutation and Prefaces to Boyle's Other Chrysopoetic Writings 296
- APPENDIX 3: Dialogue on the Converse with Angels Aided by the Philosophers' Stone 310
- WORKS CITED 319
- INDEX 335