NOW AVAILABLE AS A REVISED SECOND EDITION It is 1666, the Year of the Beast, seen by many as the moment the Devil will appear on earth. Science is in ascendance, crowding out other systems of thought. The ancient art of alchemy is in retreat. No one has been able to make the Philosophers' Stone for over a hundred years, but many of the best minds of the age are still in a desperate search for it. Stories vividly abound how alchemists...