George Starkey

George Starkey (born 8 or June 9, 1628 in Bermuda, † 1665 in London ) was an English alchemist. He also published under the pseudonym Irenaeus Philalethes (not to be confused with Eugenius Philaletha ). His students included, inter alia, Robert Boyle.

Life

George Starkey grew up in a schottischstämmigen Puritanerfamilie. His father George Stirk was minister in Bermuda, which was a British colony since 1620. He died when his son was nine years old.

Starkey received yet from 1643 to 1646 an education at Harvard College, with a MA and BA. In 1650 he traveled to England, where he built a laboratory in London, where Boyle also received instruction, which financially supported him later.

Under the name Philaletes he wrote numerous alchemical treatises and iatrochemische, the most circulated in manuscript and printed posthumously. They had influence, inter alia, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Starkey sat resolutely for the views and methods of Johan Baptista van Helmont. Always in the struggle for a livelihood, he also received the support of Samuel Hartlib and worked temporarily at a metallurgical company based in Bristol.

Works

  • Three tracts for metal treatment: Tres de tractatus Metallorum trans mutatione (Amsterdam, 1668 ), were later incorporated into the Musaeum Hermeticum.
  • Chemistry more (Nuremberg, 1722)
  • Core of alchemy: it is a proven through experience treaty which opens up the secret and hidden high Geheimnß the Elixir of the Wise; abgetheilt in Zwey parts. Vierling, 1750 yard ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence ( Reprint; Ed by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe, 2005. )
  • Metamorphosis of Metals
  • Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby
  • Fount of Chemical Truth
  • Anonymi Philalethae Commentarius In Epistolam Georgii Riplaei. Leipzig 1685, online edition of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
  • Magnalia Medico - Chymica Continuata, Or, continuation of high Artzney and Feuerkunstigen secret nuts. Nuremberg 1680, online edition of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
  • The core of alchemy, which is a proven through experience treaty Which opens up the secret and hidden high Geheimnüß Of Elixirs of ways. Leipzig 1685, online edition of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
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