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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence Principe |
ISBN: | 9780226682952 0226682951 9780226923789 0226923789 |
OCLC Number: | 802293749 |
Description: | pages cm |
Contents: | What is alchemy? -- Origins : Graeco-Egyptian chemeia -- Development : Arabic al-kīmiyā -- Maturity : Medieval Latin alchemia -- Redefinitions, revivals, and reinterpretations : alchemy from the eighteenth century to the present -- The golden age : practicing chymistry in the early modern period -- Unveiling the secrets -- The wider world of chymistry. |
Responsibility: | Lawrence M. Principe. |
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"Making sense out of alchemy is nearly as consuming and difficult a project as making gold with it. Lawrence M. Principe has the requisite clarity of mind and purity of heart, as well as a willingness to risk getting burned (literally!). The Secrets of Alchemy is an eminently lucid treatment of a tenebrous subject, at once learned and reader-friendly, and enormously winning." -John Crowley, author of Little, Big" Read more...
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