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Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution Hardcover - 1994
by William R. Newman
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Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New Englandrestoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit - Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an adept, possessor of the alchemical philosophers' stone. That the man was merely a mythical creation didn't diminish his reputation a whit - his writings were spectacularly successful, read by Leibniz, esteemed by Newton and Boyle, voraciously consumed by countless readers. Gehennical Fire is the story of the man behind the myth, George Starkey. A work of meticulous scholarship, Gehennical Fire is both an absorbing intellectual biography and an intriguing exploration of alchemy and medical science in the seventeenth century.
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- Title Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution
- Author William R. Newman
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
- Date 1994-12-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780674341715 / 0674341716
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.78 x 6.71 x 1.03 in (24.84 x 17.04 x 2.62 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Alchemists - England, Alchemy - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94009508
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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