Lawrence M. Principe

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Lawrence M. Principe (born May 16, 1962 ) is an American historian of science specializing in alchemy and its connection to early chemistry in the modern sense. He is the Drew Professor of Humanities in the Faculty of Science and Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University .

Lawrence M. Principe

Principe graduated from the University of Delaware with bachelor's degrees in liberal arts and chemistry in 1983 and from Indiana University , where he received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1988. In 1988 he went to Johns Hopkins University, where he was a lecturer in organic chemistry and the history of chemistry, where he received his doctorate in 1996. From 1997 he was a professor.

In the history of alchemy he dealt in particular with Robert Boyle (who is generally regarded as one of the fathers of modern chemistry) and the alchemist George Starkey , partly with William R. Newman . In particular, he represented Boyle's roots in the alchemy of his time. In 2013, he published a history of alchemy. Like Newman, he propagates the term chymistry for precursors of chemistry in the modern sense in contrast to alchemy.

In 1998 he received a Templeton Foundation Prize (for courses on the relationship between religion and science) and in 2004 the first Francis Bacon Prize from Caltech . In 1999 he was named Maryland Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and received the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Faculty Award.

Fonts

  • The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest , Princeton, 1998
  • The Secrets of Alchemy , University of Chicago Press 2013
  • with William R. Newman: Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 (received the Pfizer Prize in 2005 )
  • Editor with William R. Newman: George Starkey: Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence , Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2004
  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
  • Editor with Marco Beretta, Antonio Clericuzio : The Accademia del Cimento and Its European Context , Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2009
  • Editor: Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry, Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007
  • Editor: New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry , Dordrecht: Springer, 2007
    • Therein from Principe: A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry, pp. 1-22.
  • Contributions in Claus Priesner , Karin Figala : Alchemy. Lexicon of a Hermetic Science, Beck 1998
  • with William R. Newman: Some Problems in the Historiography of Alchemy , in: William R. Newman, Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe , Cambridge MA; MIT Press, 2001, pp. 385-434

Some essays:

  • Alchemy Restored, Isis, Vol. 102, 2011, pp. 305-312.
  • Apparatus and Reproducibility in Alchemy , in: Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry, MIT Press, 2000, pp. 55-74
  • The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton: Alternate Approaches and Divergent Deployments. , in: Margaret J. Osler: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 201-220
  • with William R. Newman: Alchemy vs. Chemistry: The Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake , Early Science and Medicine, Volume 3, 1998, pp. 32-65
  • Reflections on Newton's Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy , James E. Force, Sarah Hutton: Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004, pp. 205-219

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SURNAME Principe, Lawrence M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1962