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George Starkey (1628-1665)

George Starkey was an American chemist and alchemist who was active in the 1600s. He is best known for his pioneering work in iatrochemistry and the development of the Starkey-Boyle law.

Starkey was born in England, and is believed to have studied medicine and chemistry at Oxford University. He was a member of the Royal Society and wrote numerous works on alchemy, including The Way to Make Perfect Gold, which was published in 1669.

L’Alkaest ou le dissolvant universel de Van-Helmont. Liquor alkaest. Rouen 1704

Auserlesene chymische Tractätlein. Vienna 1748

Chymisches Zwey-Blat. Das ist zwey vortreffliche chymische Tractätlein Eröffneter Eingang zu dess Königs verschlossenem Pallaste. Von dem Stein der Weisen. Frankfurt, Hamburg 1673

Collectanea chymica: a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry. London 1684

Eenige philosophische en medicinale tractaatjes. Amsterdam 1688

Introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium. Amsterdam 1667

Introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium. Venice 1683

Kern der Alchymie. Leipzig 1685

El mayor thesoro. Tratado del arte de la alchimia, o chrysopoeya, que ofrece la entrada abierta, al cerrado palacio del rey. Madrid 1727

Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated. London 1658

Ripley reviv’d: or, an exposition upon sir George Ripley’s hermetico-poetical works. London 1677-78

Secrets reveal’d: or, an open entrance to the shut palace. London 1669

Verborgenheit des unsterblichen liquoris alcahest. Frankfurt 1707

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