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The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy

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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.

Author(s): P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 225

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Contents
Dedication
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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 Mediaeval 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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