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According to Wikipedia, William R. Newman is Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. Most of Newman’s work in the History of Science has been devoted to alchemy and "chymistry," the art-nature debate, and matter theories, particularly atomism. Newman is also General Editor of the Chymistry of Isaac Newton, an online resource combining born-digital editions of Newton’s alchemical writings with multimedia replications of Newton’s alchemical experiments. In addition, he was Director of the Catapult Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Analysis of Texts at Indiana University. Newman is on the editorial boards of Archimedes, Early Science and Medicine, and HOPOS.

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William R. Newman's Published Works

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Published Papers

Alchemy vs. chemistry: the etymological origins of a historiographic mistake. (1998) (152)
Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution (2006) (102)
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (1997) (97)
Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature (2004) (83)
Alchemy tried in the fire : Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chemistry (2002) (75)
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (2003) (68)
Technology and Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages (1989) (65)
The alchemical sources of Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy (1996) (44)
Late medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories (2001) (43)
The Corpuscular Theory of J. B. Van Helmont and its Medieval Sources (1993) (38)
What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy? (2011) (31)
From Alchemy to “Chymistry” (2006) (17)
Newton the Alchemist (2018) (15)
Robert Boyle Reconsidered: Boyle's debt to corpuscular alchemy (1994) (12)
The Significance of "Chymical Atomism" (2009) (12)
Brian Vickers on Alchemy and the Occult: A Response (2009) (11)
How not to integrate the history and philosophy of science: a reply to Chalmers (2010) (11)
Art, Nature, And Experiment Among Some Aristotelian Alchemists (1997) (10)
Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghāyat Al-Ḥakīm@@@Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghayat Al-Hakim (1986) (9)
Newton's Clavis as Starkey's Key (1987) (9)
Corpuscular alchemy and the tradition of Aristotle's Meteorology, with special reference to Daniel Sennert (2001) (9)
'Matter' and 'Form': By Way of a Preface (1997) (8)
Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence (2005) (8)
Elective Affinity Before Geoffroy: Daniel Sennert’s Atomistic Explanation of Vinous and Acetous Fermentation (2012) (6)
The background to Newton's chymistry (2002) (6)
A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602) (2007) (6)
Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis (2005) (5)
Chemical knowledge in the early modern world (2014) (5)
Robert Boyle, Transmutation, and the History of Chemistry before Lavoisier: A Response to Kuhn (2014) (5)
"Decknamen or pseudochemical language"? Eirenaeus Philalethes and Carl Jung. (1996) (5)
Alchemical Atoms or Artisanal Building Blocks? A Response to Klein (2009) (4)
Mercury and Sulphur among the High Medieval Alchemists: From Rāzī and Avicenna to Albertus Magnus and Pseudo-Roger Bacon (2014) (4)
The fate of hylomorphism : "matter" and "form" in early modern science (1997) (4)
The Corpuscular Transmutational Theory of Eirenaeus Philalethes (1994) (4)
The ‘New Historiography’ and the Limits of Alchemy (2008) (4)
The ‘New Historiography’ and the Limits of Alchemy (2008) (4)
Daniel Sennert's Earliest Writings (1599/1600) and Their Debt to Giordano Bruno (2000) (4)
A preliminary reassessment of Newton's alchemy (2016) (4)
An Introduction to Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (2014) (3)
The Chemical Revolution and its Chymical Antecedents (2008) (3)
Prophecy and Alchemy: The Origin of Eirenaeus Philalethes (1990) (2)
7. The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature (2019) (2)
Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine (2009) (2)
Alan Turing remembered (2012) (2)
Alchemy, Domination, and Gender William R. Newman (1998) (2)
The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey (2003) (2)
Introduction: The Problematic Position of Alchemy in the Scientific Revolution (2006) (2)
Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" (2021) (1)
Newton and Chymistry (2020) (1)
Boyle, Sennert, and the Mechanical Philosophy (2006) (1)
Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate (2004) (1)
Starkey, Boyle, and Chymistry in the Hartlib Circle (2002) (1)
Alchemical and Chymical Principles (2017) (1)
The Art-Nature Debate and the Issue of Experiment (2004) (1)
Symbols and conventions (2018) (1)
Newton’s Reputation as an Alchemist and the Tradition of Chymiatria (2017) (1)
Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newton's early alchemy (2009) (1)
Secrets of nature : astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe (2015) (1)
Magic in the Middle Ages.Richard Kieckhefer (1993) (0)
APPENDIX TWO. Newton’s “Key to Snyders” (2019) (0)
Artificial Life and the Homunculus (2004) (0)
Book Review:De occulta philosophia: Libri tres Cornelius Agrippa, V. Perrone Compagni (1995) (0)
Optics and Matter: Newton, Boyle, and Scholastic Mixture Theory (2018) (0)
The Medieval Tradition of Alchemical Corpuscular Theory (2006) (0)
The Doves of Diana (2018) (0)
A Reply to the Four Reviewers (2021) (0)
ALCHEMY AND THE CHANGIN GS IGNIFICANCE OF ANALY SIS (2005) (0)
Number, Weight, Measure, and Experiment in Chymistry (2002) (0)
Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck (2020) (0)
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Alchemical Collaborator (2018) (0)
Bucking like a mule : the story of Standard Life (1972) (0)
The Corpuscular Theory of Daniel Sennert and Its Sources (2006) (0)
Erastus and the Critique of Chymical Analysis (2006) (0)
TWO. Problems of Authority and Language in Newton’s Chymistry (2018) (0)
TWENTY. Public and Private (2019) (0)
TWENTY-ONE. The Ghost of Sendivogius (2019) (0)
TWENTY-TWO. A Final Interlude (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy Constantine of Pisa, Barbara Obrist (1992) (0)
The Quest for Sophic Sal Ammoniac (2018) (0)
The Visual Arts and Alchemy (2004) (0)
NINE. The Doves of Diana (2019) (0)
Boyle's Use of Chymical Corpuscles and the Reduction to the Pristine State to Demonstrate the Mechanical Origin of Qualities (2006) (0)
A Concise Conclusion (2006) (0)
The Legacy of Van Helmont's and Starkey's Chymistry (2002) (0)
Imitating, Challenging, and Perfecting Nature (2004) (0)
THIRTEEN. The Fortunes of Raymundus (2019) (0)
FOURTEEN. The Shadow of a Noble Experiment (2019) (0)
The Shadow of a Noble Experiment (2018) (0)
Praxis: Delusions of a Disordered Mind? (2018) (0)
APPENDIX THREE. “Three Mysterious Fires” (2019) (0)
Bad Chemistry: Basilisks and Women in Paracelsus and pseudo-Paracelsus (2020) (0)
Eloge: John Murdoch, 10 May 1927–16 September 2010 (2011) (0)
Attempts at a Unified Practice (2018) (0)
Encoding Newton’s Alchemical Library: Integrating Traditional Bibliographic and Modern Computational Methods (2019) (0)
The Interplay of Structure and Essence in Sennert's Corpuscular Theory (2006) (0)
Early Modern Alchemical Theory (2018) (0)
Book Review:The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (1993) (0)
Turning Up The Mould, In Search Of The Gold (2006) (0)
FIFTEEN. The Quest for Sophic Sal Ammoniac (2019) (0)
Flowers of Lead (2018) (0)
Rampling and the Ripley Corpus (2021) (0)
The Enigma of Newton’s Alchemy (2018) (0)
Extracting Our Venus (2018) (0)
Scbolasticism, Metallukgy, and Secrecy in The Laboratony (2002) (0)
The Devil on two sticks in England (1853) (0)
Public and Private (2018) (0)
Afterword Further Ramifications of the Art-Nature Debate (2004) (0)
Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy (2018) (0)
SIXTEEN. Extracting Our Venus (2019) (0)
Epilogue (2018) (0)
A Final Interlude (2018) (0)
Art and Nature in Ancient Mechanics (2007) (0)
An introduction to alchemical apparatus in the late Middle Ages. (1983) (0)
Sir Brian Tuke (1870) (0)
Alchemy in Europe: A Guide to Research. Claudia Kren (1992) (0)
THREE. Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy (2019) (0)
Introduction from Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans (2004) (0)
Aristotelian Corpuscular Theory and Andreas Libavius (2006) (0)
ONE. The Enigma of Newton’s Alchemy (2019) (0)
Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscularian Matter Theory (2001) (0)
SEVEN. Newton’s Early Alchemical Theoricae (2019) (0)
The Ghost of Sendivogius (2018) (0)
Corpuscles, Atoms, Particles and Minima (2001) (0)
Spirits in the Laboratory: Some Helmontian Collaborators of Robert Boyle (2016) (0)
The Fortunes of Raymundus (2018) (0)
NINETEEN. The Warden of the Mint and His Alchemical Associates (2018) (0)
Newton’s Early Alchemical Theoricae (2018) (0)
APPENDIX ONE. The Origin of Newton’s Chymical Dictionaries (2019) (0)
EIGHT. Toward a General Theory of Vegetability and Mechanism (2018) (0)
SEVENTEEN. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Alchemical Collaborator (2019) (0)
Is the private practitioner vanishing? (1988) (0)
Theory and Practice in Newton’s Alchemical Experimentation (2020) (0)
FOUR. Early Modern Alchemical Theory (2019) (0)
TEN. Flowers of Lead (2019) (0)
Mercury and Sulphur among the High Medieval Alchemists: From Rāzī and Avicenna to Albertus Magnus and Pseudo-Roger Bacon (2015) (0)
ELEVEN. Johann de Monte-Snyders in Newton’s Alchemy (2018) (0)

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