A Harvard-Trained Alchymist

Principe, The Aspiring Adept. Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1998. 

The Foundation of Newton s Adchemy or. The Hunting of the Greene Lyon, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975. 

The Wild Road, Ballantyne, New York, 1997, pp. 328—329.1 thank Ms. Susan Greenberg for bringing this to my attention. 

On the basis of his examination of Harvard theses from the mid-seventeenth to late-eighteenth centuries, Newman notes the following successfully defended positions  

Can metals be changed into one another alternately Yes. Is there a sympathetic powder Yes. 

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