The chemical choir : a history of alchemy / / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
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| Autore: |
Maxwell-Stuart P. G.
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| Titolo: |
The chemical choir : a history of alchemy / / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, NY : , : Continuum, , 2012 |
| ©2008 | |
| Edizione: | Paperback edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 540.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Alchemy - History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The chemical choir |
| ISBN: | 1-4411-4136-7 |
| 1-4411-8870-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827642303321 |
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