Secrets of Alchemy

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey! Boyle! and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began! developed! and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits! this title illuminates the practice. "This ele-gant, readable book, packed with information and reve-lation, covers the history of alchemy from its shadowy origins in Hellenistic Egypt to its scholarly recovery in the 20th century. Lawrence M. Principe traces the contours of a mil-lennial tradition and shows exactly why Newton and many other brilliantly gifted scientists found so much promise in it. . . . Again and again, Principe melds rich his-torical erudition with deft chemical manip-ulation. The results are always convincing and sometimes--as when one recipe yields a golden object in the form of a tree--breathtaking."" "--Anthony Grafton "Science " Zusammenfassung Brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began! developed! and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits! this title illuminates the practice.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence M Principe, Lawrence M. Principe
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226103792
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10379-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Synthesis; Synthesis (CHUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Chemie, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General