Lawrence Principe

Author of The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis)

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About the Author

Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction and Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, show more and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry, the latter coauthored with William Newman and published by the University of Chicago Press. show less

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Works by Lawrence Principe

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The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis) (2012) 193 copies

The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (2011) 129 copies

Science and Religion (2006) 93 copies

History of Science: Antiquity to 1700 (2003) 48 copies

Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (2005) 40 copies

The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest (1998) 33 copies

Transmutations: Alchemy in Art: Selected Works from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage… (2005) 19 copies

Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry (2007) 9 copies

New narratives in eighteenth-century chemistry : contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21 - 23 April,… (2007) 5 copies

The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences (Synthesis) (2020) 5 copies

SCIENCE & RELIGION Course guidebook, Lectures in print, Discs 1 and 2, 12 lectures 30 minutes each 2 copies

The Modern political tradition: Hobbes to Habermas, Volume 3 of 3, (The Great Courses) -- DVD #GC114 (audio only) 1 copy

Science & Religion Transcript book to accompany course 1 copy

Beginning the Journey 1 copy

La revolución científica / The Scientific Revolution: Una breve introducción / A Very Short Introduction (Spanish… (2013) 1 copy

Science and Religion (CDs) - The Teaching Company (The Great Courses) by Lawrence M. Principe (2006-05-04) 1 copy

Plato's Cosmos 1 copy

Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks 1 copy

Aristotle's View of the Natural World 1 copy

Alchemy and chemistry : breaking up and making up (again and again) (2014) 1 copy

Plato and the Pythagoreans 1 copy

Copernicus and Calendrical Reform 1 copy

The Force of Isaac Newton 1 copy

The New Physics 1 copy

The Presocratics 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1962-05-16
Gender: male
Education: Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD|Organic Chemistry)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD|History of Science)
Occupations: chemist
historian of science
professor
Organizations: Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe,
Johns Hopkins University (Department of History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry)

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The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis) by Lawrence M. Principe

This is one of those rare books that explains alchemy as part of history, as a set of beliefs that could be either metaphorical, spiritual, or physical, and that lead toward what became chemistry.

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mykl-s | 2 other reviews | Aug 11, 2023 |

Science and Religion by Lawrence M. Principe

I found this Great Courses audiobook series of lectures by Professer Lawrence M. Principe on Science and Religion to be extremely educational and intellectually stimulating. Professor Principe did a very good job of summarizing and condensing into twelve half hour lectures an immense amount of information giving us a solid stepping stone on some of the principal points of history of theology and science and of some of the principal players in each. The main focus is how science and religion have for most of history not been at war with each other and the idea that they are is a relatively modern development and the reasons for that are explained.

Evolution and creationism is gone over in some detail, as well as the evangelical, fundamentalist movements in America that have grown so large in recent years and are one of the major sources of the huge divisions and political battling for control Americans are currently facing.… (more)

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shirfire218 | 1 other review | Aug 8, 2023 |

Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Lawrence M. Principe

This book does exactly what it says on the cover - it's a short introduction to the Scientific Revolution with a good overview of the main ideas, people, and events. The bibliographies are thorough. This is a good starting point to research on the Scientific Revolution.

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Gwendydd | 1 other review | May 2, 2020 |

The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Int… by Lawrence M. Principe

It's not that people in the pre-scientific age weren't intelligent - but rather they engaged in a fundamentally different form of reasoning. Science allowed us to reason differently about what we observe. Principe provides a wonderful and accessible account of this shift.

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johnverdon | 1 other review | Dec 11, 2018 |

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