This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

1929. Being a facsimile reproduction from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, written in 1652, with annotations by Elias Ashmole. The historian may find small value in the Ordinall as a chemical document, however its sprightliness of style, its somewhat archaic, yet not difficult, language, and its atmosphere of romance, combine to make it a delightful book to read. The Ordinall is written in Old English text.

1928. Geber is the Westernized form of Jabir, the name of the celebrated Arab chemist to whom the books here printed have been ascribed. Within the last few years the mystery surrounding him has begun to disperse and the story of his life may be told here with some degree of probability.

1928. Geber is the Westernized form of Jabir, the name of the celebrated Arab chemist to whom the books here printed have been ascribed. Within the last few years the mystery surrounding him has begun to disperse and the story of his life may be told here with some degree of probability.

1929. Being a facsimile reproduction from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, written in 1652, with annotations by Elias Ashmole. The historian may find small value in the Ordinall as a chemical document, however its sprightliness of style, its somewhat archaic, yet not difficult, language, and its atmosphere of romance, combine to make it a delightful book to read. The Ordinall is written in Old English text.

1928. Geber is the Westernized form of Jabir, the name of the celebrated Arab chemist to whom the books here printed have been ascribed. Within the last few years the mystery surrounding him has begun to disperse and the story of his life may be told here with some degree of probability.

Being a facsimile reproduction from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, written in 1652, with annotations by Elias Ashmole. The historian may find small value in the Ordinall as a chemical document, however its sprightliness of style, its somewhat archaic, yet not difficult, language, and its atmosphere of romance, combine to make it a delightful book to read. The Ordinall is written in Old English text.

Geber is the Westernized form of Jabir, the name of the celebrated Arab chemist to whom the books here printed have been ascribed. Within the last few years the mystery surrounding him has begun to disperse and the story of his life may be told here with some degree of probability.

Classic study by noted scholar ranges over 2000 years of alchemical history: ancient Greek and Chinese alchemy, alchemical apparatus, Islamic and early Western alchemy; signs, symbols, and secret terms; Paracelsus, English and Scottish alchemists, and more. Erudite, learned coverage of philosophical, religious, mystical overtones; replacement of alchemy by scientific method, much more. Illustrated.