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Andrew W. Sparling,

Please note: Andrew has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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Education:

MADuke University1996
BA (Hons.)University of Calgary1990
BAUniversity of Calgary1986
Specialties:

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

  1. 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)
  2. 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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