Chemical Choir : A History of Alchemy

by Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.

• ISBN13: 9781847251480
• ISBN10: 184725148X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

The history of alchemy is traced from its earliest roots through to its influence and use in modern-day science.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
China: The Golden Road to Immortality	p. 1
India: The Way of Tantra and Mercury	p. 19
Roman Egypt: The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness	p. 29
The Islamic World: Balance and Magic Numbers	p. 45
Mediaeval Europe: Translations, Debates and Symbols	p. 55
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World	p. 83
The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath	p. 105
Theology Wearing a Mask of Science: The Later Seventeenth Century	p. 123
Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	p. 137
A Child of Earlier Times: The Twentieth Century	p. 153
Notes	p. 167
Select Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 197
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