Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored
Publisher: Book Tree
Published: October 1998
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781885395795
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.