Robert Boyle is remembered largely for his integration of experiment and the ‘mechanical
philosophy’. Although Boyle is occasionally elusive as to what he means precisely by the ‘…

In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal
enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was …

The parallel usage of the two terms "alchemy" and "chemistry" by seventeenth-century writers
has engendered considerable confusion among historians of science. Many historians …

… In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the
… Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of …

… Newman, "The Alchemical Sources of Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Philosophy,” Annals of …
The topic is also developed at some length in William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe, …

Over the last two decades a new scholarship on alchemy has emerged, leading to a
fundamental reformulation of knowledge about alchemists and their activities. We now know that …

Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place
in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeenth century alchemist? How did he direct his …

Alchemy was a subject of no small controversy in the Middle Ages. To some scholastics,
alchemy seemed to arrogate the power of divinity itself in its claim that man could replicate the …

… roles in the Scientific Revolution, as William R. Newman demonstrates in this fascinating book
… Beginning with Starkey's unusual education in colonial New England, Newman traces out …

Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from
the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and …