| Andrew W. Sparling,
Please note: Andrew has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | | Email Address: | | - Education:
MA | Duke University | 1996 |
BA (Hons.) | University of Calgary | 1990 |
BA | University of Calgary | 1986 |
- Specialties:
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Medieval and Early Modern History
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- Research Interests: Early modern Europe (esp. Germany); science.
Current projects:
Dissertation: "Johann Rudolph Glauber: Experience and Authority of a Seventeenth-Century German Artisan Adept."
History of science, particularly seventeenth-century German
alchemy. Experience, authority, honor, deceit; emotions;
masculinity and femininity; the body; cognition; rhetoric.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Representative Publications
- Andrew W. Sparling, Putrefaction in the Laboratory: How an Eighteenth-Century Experimentalist Refashioned Herself as an Homme de Lettres,
Querelles: Jahrbuch für Frauenforschung, vol. 10
(Accepted, 2005)
- Andrew W. Sparling, Rev. of Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry, by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe,
Metascience, vol. 12
(2003),
pp. 424–27
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