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The chemical choir /
P.G. Maxwell-Stuart presents the history of alchemy traced from its earliest roots through to its influence in modern-day science.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Continuum Books,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.