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P.G. Maxwell-Stuart presents the history of alchemy traced from its earliest roots through to its influence in modern-day science.

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"'It breaks down a complex subject - the study of nature through experiments with chemicals - into ten easy-to-read chapters... The reader who has always wondered about alchemy and has not yet read a history of the subject will find The Chemical Choir an entertaining starting point.' (Reviews in History)"

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1.China - The Golden Road to Immortality; 2. India - The Way of Tantra and Mercury; 3. Roman Egypt - The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness; 4. The Islamic World - Balance and Magic Numbers; 5. Medieval Europe - Translations, Debates and Symbols; 6. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World; 7. The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath; 8. Theology Wearing a Mask of Science - the later Seventeenth Century; 9. Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption - the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 10. A Child of Earlier Times - the Twentieth Century.

The Chemical Choir

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      Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
      Published 1 October 2012
      ISBN-13 9781441132970
      978-1441132970
      ISBN-10 144113297X
      Also in:
      Magic, alchemy and hermetic thought Science & Nature Chemistry History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      P.G. Maxwell-Stuart presents the history of alchemy traced from its earliest roots through to its influence in modern-day science.

      Trade Review
      "'It breaks down a complex subject - the study of nature through experiments with chemicals - into ten easy-to-read chapters... The reader who has always wondered about alchemy and has not yet read a history of the subject will find The Chemical Choir an entertaining starting point.' (Reviews in History)"

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1.China - The Golden Road to Immortality; 2. India - The Way of Tantra and Mercury; 3. Roman Egypt - The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness; 4. The Islamic World - Balance and Magic Numbers; 5. Medieval Europe - Translations, Debates and Symbols; 6. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World; 7. The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath; 8. Theology Wearing a Mask of Science - the later Seventeenth Century; 9. Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption - the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 10. A Child of Earlier Times - the Twentieth Century.

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