Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry Book

1	Worlds apart	6
	Boyle's portrayal of his relationship to chymistry	15
2	Number, weight, measure, and experiment in chymistry : from the Medievals to Van Helmont	35
	Testing, analysis, and assaying in Late Medieval Alchemy	38
	Alexander von Suchten and the sixteenth-century synthesis of chymical traditions	50
	Joan Baptista Van Helmont : art, nature, and experiment	56
3	Theory and practice : Starkey's laboratory methodology	92
	The use and format of Starkey's notebooks	94
	Starkey's laboratory	96
	Starkey's experimental methodology : conjectural processes and fiery refutations	100
	Quantitative methods and analyses in transmutational alchemy	118
	The volatilization of alkalies and Starkey's grand design for medicine	136
4	Scholasticism, metallurgy, and secrecy in the laboratory : the style and origin of Starkey's notebooks	156
	Sources of Starkey's industrial chymistry	157
	The structure of Starkey's laboratory notebooks	161
	Starkey and textual authority	174
	The place of divine authority in the laboratory	197
5	Starkey, Boyle, and chymistry in the Hartlib Circle	207
	Starkey and the development of Boyle's early chymistry	208
	The role of Benjamin Worsley in Boyle's "chymical education"	236
	Hartlib's "chymical son" Frederick Clodius and Boyle	257
6	The legacy of Van Helmont's and Starkey's chymistry : Boyle, Homberg, and the chemical revolution	273
	The chymistry of salts in Boyle and Van Helmont	275
	A Helmontian background to the chemical revolution	296