Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

7/1/1995 - 6/30/1999

Funding Totals

$71,000.00 (approved)
$71,000.00 (awarded)


The Role of Alchemy in Early Modern Science: The Collaboration of Robert Boyle and George Starkey

FAIN: RH-21301-95

Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
William R. Newman (Project Director: November 1994 to December 1999)

To support a study of the collaboration of the early chemist Robert Boyle and the American alchemist George Starkey in order to examine the integration of the theories and practices of alchemy and early chemistry in the 17th century.