The chemical choir : a history of alchemy /: a history of alchemy. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: P.G. Maxwell-Stuart.
• Other Names: Maxwell-Stuart, P. G
• Contents: Introduction / 1.China - The Golden Road to Immortality / 2. India - The Way of Tantra and Mercury / 3. Roman Egypt - The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness / 4. The Islamic World - Balance and Magic Numbers / 5. Medieval Europe - Translations, Debates and Symbols / 6. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World / 7. The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath / 8. Theology Wearing a Mask of Science - the later Seventeenth Century / 9. Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption - the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / 10. A Child of Earlier Times - the Twentieth Century.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Subjects: 540.112; Alchemy -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441141361; 1441141367
• Related ISBNs: 9781441132970
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.