The mirror of alchemy : alchemical ideas and images in manuscripts and books from antiquity to the seventeenth century
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TextToronto University of Toronto Press c1994Description: 128p.; ill.; bibliog. refs.; glossary; bibliog.; appendix; indicesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-8020-7660-2
- QD 13 .R63 1994
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1st pub. 1994 by The British Library, London
1 Origins, beginnings and early histories. 2 Alchemists and their writings. 3 Alchemical theories and practices. 4 The languages of alchemy
'In this accessible and authoritative study, Gareth Roberts provides an introduction to the history, concepts, terms and presuppositions of western European alchemy, as well as discussing the works of individual alchemists and the characteristically metaphorical and paradoxical languages they employed....'
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