Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution

by William Newman

Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New England--restoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit--Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an adept possessor of the alchemical philosophers' stone. That the man was merely a mythical creation didn't diminish his reputation a whit--his writings were spectacularly successful, read by Leibniz, esteemed by Newton and Boyle, voraciously consumed by countless...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674341716
• ISBN13: 9780674341715
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.8"