Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781602061040
Subjects: General; Science / General; Science; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: TO most of us the word ' alchemy ' calls up the picture of a medieval and slightly sinister laboratory in which an aged, black-robed wizard brooded over the crucibles and alembics that were to bring within his reach the Philosophers' Stone, and with that discovery the formula for the elixir of life and the transmutation of metals.