The Alchemy Reader

by Stanton J. Linden

Book Overview

Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521796628
• ISBN13: 9780521796620
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.5"