ENGLISH scholars first became interested in the translation of alchemical texts in the twelfth century, when they participated with the celebrated Gerard of Cremona and other continental scholars in ...
In the dim illumination of a library devoted to protecting ancient books from light degradation, James R. Voelkel gingerly picks up a nearly 600-year-old alchemy text. Written by hand sometime around ...
Can alchemy be described as a protoscience? Do ancient texts with obscure formulas and procedures describe mystic rituals and allegoric visions? Or do they record instructions to carry out real ...
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