The chemical choir
By: P.G. Maxwell-Stuart.
Publisher: Continuum Books; Brécourt Academic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781847251480
Subjects: Alchemy -- History
Description: "In this account religious scientists such as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle rub shoulders with honest obsessives and conscious frauds in a fast-paced narrative which demonstrates just how mistaken is the generally accepted view of alchemy, and how much more fascinating and engaging is its genuine history."--Inside jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: China: the golden rod to immortality; title: India: the way of tantra and mercury; title: Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness; title: The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers; title: Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols; title: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world; title: The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath; title: Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century; title: Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: A child of earler times: the twentieth century.