02525nam 2200577 450 991046449770332120211005083012.01-4411-4136-71-4411-8870-3(CKB)3710000000109795(EBL)1751282(SSID)ssj0001196773(PQKBManifestationID)12455081(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196773(PQKBWorkID)11177296(PQKB)10793929(MiAaPQ)EBC1751282(Au-PeEL)EBL1751282(CaONFJC)MIL615812(OCoLC)893331530(MiAaPQ)EBC6162020(EXLCZ)99371000000010979520181006h20122008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe chemical choir a history of alchemy /P. G. Maxwell-StuartPaperback edition.London ;New York, NY :Continuum,2012.©20081 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-3297-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.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 Century9 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 8P.G. Maxwell-Stuart presents the history of alchemy traced from its earliest roots through to its influence in modern-day science.AlchemyHistoryElectronic books.AlchemyHistory.540.1Maxwell-Stuart P. G.183633MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464497703321The chemical choir2210067UNINA