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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence Principe |
ISBN: | 9780226682952 0226682951 022610379X 9780226103792 |
OCLC Number: | 781432393 |
Description: | v, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 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. |
Series Title: | Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press) |
Responsibility: | Lawrence M. Principe. |
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"The Secrets of Alchemy comes closer than any other single work to explaining the grounds-rational and empirical, as well as religious and wishful-for alchemy's longevity. Lawrence M. Principe's delightful writing style brings to life a depth of learning matched by few in the field." (Nature) "An elegant, readable book, packed with information and revelation." (Anthony Grafton, Science) "Lawrence M. Principe has long been at the vanguard of scholars who seek to show that alchemists were really early chemists, not blindly struggling to turn substances into gold but operating, like scientists today, within an intellectual framework that guided their practical work. In The Secrets of Alchemy, an elegantly written summary of two decades of his own research, Principe describes this framework." (Wall Street Journal)" Read more...


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