Recent Publications:
Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry, ed. (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007). New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, ed. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007); also includes my paper "A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry," pp. 1-22. Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. With W. R. Newman (Chicag University of Chicago Press, 2002). The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press, 1998). “Revealing Analogies: The Descriptive and Deceptive Roles of Sexuality and Gender in Latin Alchemy,” in Hidden Intercourse, ed. Wouter Hanegraaff, (Chicag University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2008). “Reflections on Newton’s Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy,” pp. 205-19 in Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies, eds. James E. Force and Sarah Hutton, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004). “Georges Pierre des Clozets, Robert Boyle, the Alchemical Patriarch of Antioch, and the Reunion of Christendom,” Early Science and Medicine 9, (2004):307-20. Wilhelm Homberg: Chymical Corpuscularianism and Chrysopoeia in the Early Eighteenth Century," pp. 535-56 in: Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, eds. C. Luthy, J. E. Murdoch, and W. R. Newman (Leiden: Brill, 2001). Some Problems in the Historiography of Alchemy. With William R. Newman. Pp. 385-434 in Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge MA; MIT Press, 2001). "Apparatus and Reproducibility in Alchemy." Pp. 55-74 in Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry, eds. Frederic L. Holmes and Trevor Levere, (Cambridge, MA; MIT Press, 2000). The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton: Alternate Approaches and Divergent Deployments. Pp. 201-220 in Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, ed. Margaret J. Osler, (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2000). Alchemy vs. Chemistry: The Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake. With William R. Newman. Early Science and Medicine, 1998, 3:32-65. Diversity in Alchemy: The Case of Gaston "Claveus" DuClo, a Scholastic Mercurialist Chrysopoeian. In Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution, ed. Allen G. Debus and Michael Walton, pp. 169-185 (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Press, 1998). Virtuous Romance and Romantic Virtuos The Shaping of Robert Boyle's Literary Style. Journal of the History of Ideas, 1995, 56:377-397. Newly-Discovered Boyle Documents in the Royal Society Archive: Alchemical Tracts and his Student Notebook. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1995, 49:57-70. Style and Thought of the Early Boyle: Discovery of the 1648 Manuscript of Seraphic Love. Isis, 1994, 85:247-260. Robert Boyle's Alchemical Secrecy: Codes, Ciphers, and Concealments. Ambix, 1992, 39:63-74. Available Audio/Video Courses: History of Science: Antiquity to 1700, (thirty-six 30-minute lectures) Science and Religion, (twelve 30-minute lectures) Both are produced and marketed by The Teaching Company, Chantilly, VA, www.teach12.com. | 
