Element and Kunckels Pills

and Newman establishes that Isaac Newton, who seriously studied alchemy, cited Starkey s works far more often than any other alchemist of the period. Heady stuff for a young man of modest means from the Colonies. 

Gillespie (Editor-In-Chief), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner, New York, 1975, Vol. Xll, pp. 616-617. 

Newman, Gehennical Fire The Lives of George Starhey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994. 

The historical evidence is thus unambiguous There was no freshman basketball club team when Starkey attended Harvard. 

Kunckel (1630-1703), the son of an alchemist, had received no formal academic training but was an able and respected scientific investigator. With 

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