1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386866303316

Autore

Cardrow James

Titolo

An abstract of those laws commanded by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, to be put in speedy execution by Her Majesty's most gracious and pious letter (lately sent to the justices of the peace of the County of Middlesex) met at their general quarter-sessions by adjournment, Friday the 10th of July, 1691 [[electronic resource] ] : published for the ease and direction of the several and respective officers in the performance of their duty / / by James Cardrow .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Tho. Braddyll, MDCXCI [1691]

Descrizione fisica

1 broadside

Soggetti

Law - England

Great Britain Politics and government 1689-1702

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786912203321

Autore

Maxwell-Stuart P. G.

Titolo

The chemical choir : a history of alchemy / / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY : , : Continuum, , 2012

©2008

ISBN

1-4411-4136-7

1-4411-8870-3

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

540.1

Soggetti

Alchemy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Others; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Illustrations; 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 Centuries10 A Child of Earlier Times: The Twentieth Century; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Plates 1; Plates 2; Plates 3; Plates 4; Plates 5; Plates 6; Plates 7 ; Plates 8

Sommario/riassunto

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