Lawrence M. Principe

TL;DR: This paper provides the first exhaustive analysis of the two terms "alchemy" and "chemistry" and their interlinguistic cognates in the seventeenth century and suggests a return to seventeenth-century terminology for discussing the different aspects of the early modern discipline "chymistry."

TL;DR: In this article, Boyle's Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals is described as a conversation with angels aided by the Philosophers' StoneWorks, and the conversation is followed by a discussion of the nature of transmutations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed George Starkey's extraordinary laboratory notebooks and showed how this American "chymist" translated the wildly figurative writings of traditional alchemy into quantitative, carefully reasoned laboratory practice - and then encoded his own work in allegorical, secretive treatises under the name of Eirebaeus Philalethes.

TL;DR: Boyle's principal correspondents: John Aubrey (1626-97), virtuoso and author William Avery (d.1677), John Daberley (1606-1642), John W. Chesterton (1642-1717d), Count W. Connecticut (1618-17d) and John DaBERHANE (1619-1789) as discussed by the authors.