Alchemy revisited : : proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Alchemy at the University of Groningen, 17-19 April 1989 / / edited by Z.R.W.M. von Martels.

Alchemy revisited is an important collection of papers presented at an international congress held at the University of Groningen in April 1989. Among the scholars whose work is presented her are Prof. N. Sivin (Chinese alchemy), Prof. B. Vickers (res and verba in Greek alchemy), Profs. K. Figala an...

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Superior document:Collection de travaux de l'Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences, |x 0169-7897 ; volume 33
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York ;, København ;, Köln : : Brill,, 1990.
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
Series:Collection de travaux de l'Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences ; volume 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) :; illustrations.
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Summary:Alchemy revisited is an important collection of papers presented at an international congress held at the University of Groningen in April 1989. Among the scholars whose work is presented her are Prof. N. Sivin (Chinese alchemy), Prof. B. Vickers (res and verba in Greek alchemy), Profs. K. Figala and U. Neumann (with new material on Michael Maier), Prof. A.G. Debus (on iatrochemistry and the chemical revolution) and Prof. M. Crosland (on alchemy in the Age of Enlightenment). They and the other contributors give an unusually comprehensive survey of Indian, Greek, Arabic and European alchemy which will serve as an authoritative scholarly introduction to the subject for historians of science and related literature. (Prof. J.D. North contributes a short lecture on Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale).
ISBN:9004625704
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Z.R.W.M. von Martels.