Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.
The chemical choir : a history of alchemy / P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. - Paperback edition. - xii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
China: the golden rod to immortality -- India: the way of tantra and mercury -- Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness -- The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers -- Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world -- The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath -- Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century -- Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- A child of earlier times: the twentieth century.
In this account religious scientists such as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle rub shoulders with honest obsessives and conscious frauds in a fast-paced narrative which demonstrates just how mistaken is the generally accepted view of alchemy, and how much more fascinating and engaging is its genuine history.
9781441132970 144113297X
2012474226
015904104 Uk
Alchemy--History.
Alchemy.
History
QD13 / .M39 2012
540.112
The chemical choir : a history of alchemy / P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. - Paperback edition. - xii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
China: the golden rod to immortality -- India: the way of tantra and mercury -- Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness -- The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers -- Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world -- The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath -- Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century -- Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- A child of earlier times: the twentieth century.
In this account religious scientists such as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle rub shoulders with honest obsessives and conscious frauds in a fast-paced narrative which demonstrates just how mistaken is the generally accepted view of alchemy, and how much more fascinating and engaging is its genuine history.
9781441132970 144113297X
2012474226
015904104 Uk
Alchemy--History.
Alchemy.
History
QD13 / .M39 2012
540.112