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Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (William R. Newman)

A. Truman Schwartz

Department of Chemistry, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105

J. Chem. Educ., 2004, 81 (7), p 953

DOI: 10.1021/ed081p953

Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2004

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Starkey was probably the best known and most widely read American scientist before Benjamin Franklin. Newman’s book is a more or less chronological study of Starkey’s life and work.

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