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WILLIAM R. NEWMAN, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution. With a New Forward. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiv+348. ISBN 0-226-57714-7. £19.50, $27.50 (paperback). WILLIAM R. NEWMAN and LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xv+344. ISBN 0-226-57711-2. £28.00, $40.00 (hardback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

M. D. EDDY
Affiliation:
University of Durham

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