Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
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Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs was a historian specializing in Isaac Newton's occult studies. Her works include The Foundations of Newtons Alchemy, or the Hunting of the Green Lyon, Alchemical Death and Resurrection, and The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. She was a professor of history at the University of California, Davis from 1991 to 1994.
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs's Published Works
Published Works
- Newton and the culture of Newtonianism (1995) (85)
- Essay Review: Newton as Alchemist: The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy, or “The Hunting of the Greene Lyon” (1977) (74)
- Studies in the natural philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby. (1971) (67)
- The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. (1993) (67)
- Composition, a neglected aspect of the chemical revolution (1968) (64)
- Newton as Final Cause and First Mover (1994) (52)
- Studies in the natural philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby. Part II. Digby and alchemy. (1973) (52)
- The Janus faces of genius : the role of alchemy in Newton's thought (1993) (52)
- Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter (1982) (30)
- Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (1989) (21)
- Studies in the natural philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby. Part III. Digby's experimental alchemy-the book of secrets. (1974) (19)
- Newton’s Alchemy and His ‘Active Principle’ of Gravitation (1988) (14)
- Form in the mineral kingdom: the scientific reinterpretation of form. (1985) (13)
- The Janus faces of genius (1991) (13)
- Newton’s Rejection of the Mechanical Aether: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions (1988) (9)
- The Reenchantment of the World. Morris Berman (1983) (3)
- NEWTON AND STOICISM (1985) (3)
- Newton Manuscripts at the Smithsonian Institution (1977) (2)
- Book Review:The Expanding Force in Newton's Cosmos, as Shown in His Unpublished Papers David Castillejo (1982) (1)
- Book Review:Alchemy: A Bibliography of English-Language Writings Alan Pritchard (1981) (1)
- Book Review:In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times Gale E. Christianson (1985) (0)
- Book Review:The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age Frances A. Yates (1981) (0)
- Book Review:The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Volume V: 1709-1713 A. Rupert Hall, Laura Tilling (1977) (0)
- Rethinking the Scientific Revolution: Newton as Final Cause and First Mover (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Newton and the New Direction in Science G. V. Coyne, S.J.; M. Heller, J. Zycinski (1989) (0)
- Ambiguities in the scientific revolution: occult and scientific mentalities in the renaissance. (1984) (0)
- Essay Review: Multiple Perspectives: The Seventeenth Century Scientific Revolution Then and Now: Reason, Experiment, and Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Physics at the Royal Society during Newton's Presidency J. L. Heilbron (1986) (0)
- Reason, Experiment and Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution edited by M L Righini Bonelli and William R. Shea (1977) (0)
- Contemporary Newtonian Research. Zev Bechler (1983) (0)
- Gravity and Alchemy (1992) (0)
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