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Autore: | Maxwell-Stuart P. G. |
Titolo: | The chemical choir : a history of alchemy / / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart |
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.: | 9910786912203321 |
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