The chemical choir : a history of alchemy /
Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.
London : Continuum,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
China: the golden rod to immortality -- India: the way of tantra and mercury -- Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness -- The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers -- Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world -- The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath -- Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century -- Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- A child of earler times: the twentieth century.
Alchemy