White, Bruce D. (Author)
Woodward, Walter William (Author)
The seventeenth-century technologist and colonist William White (ca. 1600-73) has been cited as an alchemical tutor to Gabriel Plattes and George Starkey, and hailed as an early modern "wizard of industrial efficiency." This study --- the first that focuses on White individually --- pays particular attention to White's extraordinary reputation for furnace design and manufacture. By examining the sources of knowledge and social connections that enabled White to acquire and disseminate his knowledge of metallurgy, the authors develop a genealogy of fornacic design that extends from the continent to the Atlantic world and back again, connecting White to better known figures such as Cornelis Drebbel and Robert Boyle. By foregrounding, through White, the technology of early modern alchemy, the authors also hope to emphasise the importance of practical craft in the development of the chemical arts.
...More
Book
Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo von;
Brain, Colin;
(2008)
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650--1750
(/isis/citation/CBB001024129/)
Article
Roos, Anna Marie;
(2010)
A Speculum of Chymical Practice: Isaac Newton, Martin Lister (1639--1712), and the Making of Telescopic Mirrors
(/isis/citation/CBB001022705/)
Chapter
Hartung, Gerald;
(2008)
The “Chymistry Laboratory”: On the Function of the Experiment in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Discourse
(/isis/citation/CBB000831240/)
Article
Evans, Chris;
(2012)
The Plantation Hoe: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Commodity, 1650--1850
(/isis/citation/CBB001212882/)
Book
Holmes, Frederic L.;
Levere, Trevor H.;
(2000)
Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry
(/isis/citation/CBB000110566/)
Article
Dana Jalobeanu;
(2018)
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
(/isis/citation/CBB868354009/)
Article
Umberto Veronesi;
Marcos Martinón-Torres;
(2022)
The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s Seventeenth-Century Chymical Community: A Material Culture Approach To Laboratory Experiments
(/isis/citation/CBB006517357/)
Article
Stefan Laube;
Sergei Zotov;
(2021)
Vial Movies: The Driving Forces of Nature and Their Visualization
(/isis/citation/CBB908152534/)
Book
Beretta, Marco;
(2009)
The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking
(/isis/citation/CBB000952756/)
Book
Newman, William R.;
(2005)
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
(/isis/citation/CBB001451999/)
Chapter
Moran, Bruce T.;
(2008)
Extracting the Virtues of Nature: Spagyric Remedies and Chemical Metaphors in the Library of Don Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (1607--1681)
(/isis/citation/CBB001023414/)
Article
Keller, Vera;
(2014)
Hermetic Atomism: Christian Adolph Balduin (1632--1682), Aurum Aurae, and the 1674 Phosphor
(/isis/citation/CBB001421644/)
Thesis
Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu;
(2020)
Paracelsus Goes East: Ottoman “New Medicine” and its Afterlife
(/isis/citation/CBB747870923/)
Article
Carmen Caccioppoli;
Gennaro Rispoli;
(2018)
Nell'antica spezieria degli Incurabili: dall'alchimia alla chimica nel segno dei secreta
(/isis/citation/CBB650805690/)
Article
Linda A. Newson;
(2020)
Alchemy and Chemical Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru
(/isis/citation/CBB042314859/)
Article
Hirai, Hiro;
(2007)
Interprétation chymique de la création et origine corpusculaire de la vie chez Athanasius Kircher
(/isis/citation/CBB000771334/)
Book
Debus, Allen G.;
(2006)
The Chemical Promise: Experiment and Mysticism in the Chemical Philosophy, 1550--1800
(/isis/citation/CBB000741596/)
Article
Porto, Paulo Alves;
(2001)
Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the Preparation of the Philosophers' Stone
(/isis/citation/CBB000300020/)
Article
Yuan, Jiangyang;
(2004)
Newton's Alchemy: A Noble Philosophy?
(/isis/citation/CBB000502094/)
Book
Powers, John C.;
(2012)
Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
(/isis/citation/CBB001210042/)
Be the first to comment!