Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman

Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution

William R. Newman

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Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New England--restoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit--Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an adept possessor of the alchemical philosophers' stone...

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