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| 100 | 1 | _aMaxwell-Stuart, P. G. | |
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_aThe chemical choir : _ba history of alchemy / _cP.G. Maxwell-Stuart. |
| 250 | _aPaperback edition. | ||
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_aNew York, NY : _bContinuum, _c2012. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aChina: 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. | |
| 520 | _aIn 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. | ||
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