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William R. Newman

Chemistry

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#447

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Physical Chemistry

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#1004

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William R. Newman

Mathematics

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Group Theory

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#444

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#77

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Algebra

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#974

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#138

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Measure Theory

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#4908

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#1174

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William R. Newman's Degrees

PhD Physics Princeton University
Masters Chemistry University of California, Berkeley

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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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Alchemy vs. chemistry: the etymological origins of a historiographic mistake. (1998) (153)
Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution (2006) (104)
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman (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) (69)
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) (44)
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) (32)
From Alchemy to “Chymistry” (2006) (17)
Newton the Alchemist (2018) (15)
The Significance of "Chymical Atomism" (2009) (12)
Robert Boyle Reconsidered: Boyle's debt to corpuscular alchemy (1994) (12)
How not to integrate the history and philosophy of science: a reply to Chalmers (2010) (11)
Brian Vickers on Alchemy and the Occult: A Response (2009) (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)
A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540-1602) (2007) (6)
Elective Affinity Before Geoffroy: Daniel Sennert’s Atomistic Explanation of Vinous and Acetous Fermentation (2012) (6)
The background to Newton's chymistry (2002) (6)
"Decknamen or pseudochemical language"? Eirenaeus Philalethes and Carl Jung. (1996) (5)
Alchemy and the Changing Significance of Analysis (2005) (5)
Robert Boyle, Transmutation, and the History of Chemistry before Lavoisier: A Response to Kuhn (2014) (5)
Chemical knowledge in the early modern world (2014) (5)
Alchemical Atoms or Artisanal Building Blocks? A Response to Klein (2009) (4)
A preliminary reassessment of Newton's alchemy (2016) (4)
Daniel Sennert's Earliest Writings (1599/1600) and Their Debt to Giordano Bruno (2000) (4)
The ‘New Historiography’ and the Limits of Alchemy (2008) (4)
The fate of hylomorphism : "matter" and "form" in early modern science (1997) (4)
The ‘New Historiography’ and the Limits of Alchemy (2008) (4)
Mercury and Sulphur among the High Medieval Alchemists: From Rāzī and Avicenna to Albertus Magnus and Pseudo-Roger Bacon (2014) (4)
The Corpuscular Transmutational Theory of Eirenaeus Philalethes (1994) (4)
An Introduction to Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (2014) (3)
The Chemical Revolution and its Chymical Antecedents (2008) (3)
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)
The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey (2003) (2)
Prophecy and Alchemy: The Origin of Eirenaeus Philalethes (1990) (2)
Alchemy, Domination, and Gender William R. Newman (1998) (2)
Alan Turing remembered (2012) (2)
Introduction: The Problematic Position of Alchemy in the Scientific Revolution (2006) (2)
Alchemical and Chymical Principles (2017) (1)
Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate (2004) (1)
Newton’s Reputation as an Alchemist and the Tradition of Chymiatria (2017) (1)
Secrets of nature : astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe (2015) (1)
Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" (2021) (1)
The Art-Nature Debate and the Issue of Experiment (2004) (1)
Newton and Chymistry (2020) (1)
Symbols and conventions (2018) (1)
Geochemical concepts in Isaac Newton's early alchemy (2009) (1)
Starkey, Boyle, and Chymistry in the Hartlib Circle (2002) (1)
Boyle, Sennert, and the Mechanical Philosophy (2006) (1)
The Legacy of Van Helmont's and Starkey's Chymistry (2002) (0)
Optics and Matter: Newton, Boyle, and Scholastic Mixture Theory (2018) (0)
ONE. The Enigma of Newton’s Alchemy (2019) (0)
Flowers of Lead (2018) (0)
The Visual Arts and Alchemy (2004) (0)
Aristotelian Corpuscular Theory and Andreas Libavius (2006) (0)
Attempts at a Unified Practice (2018) (0)
Artificial Life and the Homunculus (2004) (0)
The Ghost of Sendivogius (2018) (0)
TEN. Flowers of Lead (2019) (0)
The Interplay of Structure and Essence in Sennert's Corpuscular Theory (2006) (0)
Early Modern Alchemical Theory (2018) (0)
EIGHT. Toward a General Theory of Vegetability and Mechanism (2018) (0)
Alchemy in Europe: A Guide to Research. Claudia Kren (1992) (0)
FOUR. Early Modern Alchemical Theory (2019) (0)
Bad Chemistry: Basilisks and Women in Paracelsus and pseudo-Paracelsus (2020) (0)
ALCHEMY AND THE CHANGIN GS IGNIFICANCE OF ANALY SIS (2005) (0)
Extracting Our Venus (2018) (0)
Newton’s Early Alchemical Theoricae (2018) (0)
Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy (2018) (0)
Is the private practitioner vanishing? (1988) (0)
Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck (2020) (0)
Number, Weight, Measure, and Experiment in Chymistry (2002) (0)
APPENDIX ONE. The Origin of Newton’s Chymical Dictionaries (2019) (0)
The Enigma of Newton’s Alchemy (2018) (0)
Boyle's Use of Chymical Corpuscles and the Reduction to the Pristine State to Demonstrate the Mechanical Origin of Qualities (2006) (0)
Encoding Newton’s Alchemical Library: Integrating Traditional Bibliographic and Modern Computational Methods (2019) (0)
Mercury and Sulphur among the High Medieval Alchemists: From Rāzī and Avicenna to Albertus Magnus and Pseudo-Roger Bacon (2015) (0)
TWO. Problems of Authority and Language in Newton’s Chymistry (2018) (0)
The Medieval Tradition of Alchemical Corpuscular Theory (2006) (0)
THIRTEEN. The Fortunes of Raymundus (2019) (0)
Magic in the Middle Ages.Richard Kieckhefer (1993) (0)
The Quest for Sophic Sal Ammoniac (2018) (0)
A Reply to the Four Reviewers (2021) (0)
Bucking like a mule : the story of Standard Life (1972) (0)
Theory and Practice in Newton’s Alchemical Experimentation (2020) (0)
The Doves of Diana (2018) (0)
Rampling and the Ripley Corpus (2021) (0)
FIFTEEN. The Quest for Sophic Sal Ammoniac (2019) (0)
Book Review:De occulta philosophia: Libri tres Cornelius Agrippa, V. Perrone Compagni (1995) (0)
A Concise Conclusion (2006) (0)
TWENTY-ONE. The Ghost of Sendivogius (2019) (0)
TWENTY-TWO. A Final Interlude (2019) (0)
SEVENTEEN. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Alchemical Collaborator (2019) (0)
Epilogue (2018) (0)
THREE. Religion, Ancient Wisdom, and Newton’s Alchemy (2019) (0)
FOURTEEN. The Shadow of a Noble Experiment (2019) (0)
Praxis: Delusions of a Disordered Mind? (2018) (0)
NINETEEN. The Warden of the Mint and His Alchemical Associates (2018) (0)
Art and Nature in Ancient Mechanics (2007) (0)
Afterword Further Ramifications of the Art-Nature Debate (2004) (0)
Turning Up The Mould, In Search Of The Gold (2006) (0)
Spirits in the Laboratory: Some Helmontian Collaborators of Robert Boyle (2016) (0)
Book Review:The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy Constantine of Pisa, Barbara Obrist (1992) (0)
NINE. The Doves of Diana (2019) (0)
SIXTEEN. Extracting Our Venus (2019) (0)
Corpuscles, Atoms, Particles and Minima (2001) (0)
Eloge: John Murdoch, 10 May 1927–16 September 2010 (2011) (0)
The Corpuscular Theory of Daniel Sennert and Its Sources (2006) (0)
The Shadow of a Noble Experiment (2018) (0)
APPENDIX TWO. Newton’s “Key to Snyders” (2019) (0)
Introduction from Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans (2004) (0)
ELEVEN. Johann de Monte-Snyders in Newton’s Alchemy (2018) (0)
Imitating, Challenging, and Perfecting Nature (2004) (0)
SEVEN. Newton’s Early Alchemical Theoricae (2019) (0)
Book Review:The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (1993) (0)
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Alchemical Collaborator (2018) (0)
Public and Private (2018) (0)
A Final Interlude (2018) (0)
APPENDIX THREE. “Three Mysterious Fires” (2019) (0)
Scbolasticism, Metallukgy, and Secrecy in The Laboratony (2002) (0)
TWENTY. Public and Private (2019) (0)
Erastus and the Critique of Chymical Analysis (2006) (0)
The Fortunes of Raymundus (2018) (0)
An introduction to alchemical apparatus in the late Middle Ages. (1983) (0)
Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscularian Matter Theory (2001) (0)

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