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The Chemical Choir - A History of Alchemy (Paperback)
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The Chemical Choir - A History of Alchemy (Paperback)
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In this title, the history of alchemy traced from its earliest
roots through to its influence in modern-day science. Beginning in
China in the search for the secret of immortality, and appearing
independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the
arts of smelting and alloying metals, alchemy received a great
boost in Europe from studies by Islamic and Jewish alchemists.
Translated into Latin and then combined with what was known of
Greek natural science these accounts provoked an outburst of
attempts to manipulate matter and to change it into transformative
substances known as the Philosopher's Stone or the Elixir of Life.
Alchemy's heyday in Europe was the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Demonstrations of the art were performed in royal courts
and specimens of the gold so transmuted can be seen in various
museums today. During the nineteenth century, attempts were made to
amalgamate alchemy with the religious and occult philosophies then
growing in popularity; and in the twentieth century psychologists -
principally Carl Jung - perceived in alchemy a powerful vehicle for
aspects of their theories about human nature.
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