"A most exquisite fellow" — William White and an Atlantic world perspective on the seventeenth-century chymical furnace

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dc.citation.volume54
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Bruce
dc.contributor.authorWoodward, Walter W.
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-17T23:19:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-06T22:25:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-07T13:57:36Z
dc.date.availableNO_RESTRICTIONen_US
dc.date.available2008-07-17T23:19:44Z
dc.date.available2016-03-06T22:25:43Z
dc.date.available2016-09-07T13:57:36Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThe seventeenth-century technologist and colonist William White (ca. 1600–73) has been cited as an alchemical tutor to Gabriel Plattes and George Starkey, and hailed as an early modern “wizard of industrial efficiency.” This study — the first that focuses on White individually — pays particular attention to White’s extraordinary reputation for furnace design and manufacture. By examining the sources of knowledge and social connections that enabled White to acquire and disseminate his knowledge of metallurgy, the authors develop a genealogy of fornacic design that extends from the continent to the Atlantic world and back again, connecting White to better known figures such as Cornelis Drebbel and Robert Boyle. By foregrounding, through White, the technology of early modern alchemy, the authors also hope to emphasise the importance of practical craft in the development of the chemical arts.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWhite, B. D.; Woodward, W. W. (2007). "A most exquisite fellow" — William White and an Atlantic world perspective on the seventeenth-century chymical furnace. Ambix. Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 285-298.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174582307X237065
dc.identifier.elements-id182491
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0002-6980
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/9684
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherManey Publishingen_US
dc.relation.isbasedonAmbix. Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 285-298en_US
dc.subjectChemistryen_US
dc.subjectAlchemyen_US
dc.subjectFurnacesen_US
dc.subjectCornelis Drebbelen_US
dc.subjectGeorge Starkeyen_US
dc.subject.otherFields of Research::430000 History and Archaeology::430100 Historical Studies::430106 History: North Americanen_US
dc.title"A most exquisite fellow" — William White and an Atlantic world perspective on the seventeenth-century chymical furnaceen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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