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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      28 August 2003
      ISBN:
      9781107050846
      9780521792349
      9780521796620
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107050846
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.742kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.569kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Area Studies, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies, General Science
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    The Alchemy Reader is a collection of primary source readings on alchemy and hermeticism, which offers readers an informed introduction and background to a complex field through the works of important ancient, medieval and early modern alchemical authors. Including selections from the legendary Hermes Trimegistus to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, the book illustrates basic definitions, conceptions, and varied interests and emphases; and it also illustrates the highly interdisciplinary character of alchemical thought and its links with science and medicine, philosophical and religious currents, the visual arts and iconography and, especially, literary discourse. Like the notable anthologies of alchemical writings published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it seeks to counter the problem of an acute lack of reliable primary texts and to provide a convenient and accessible point of entry to the field.

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    'Linden's introduction to the collection and the headnotes accompanying each selection, which testify to Linden's long experience and wide reading in the history and texts of alchemy, will help make this a much-used volume.'

    Source: British Society for the History of Science

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