Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman--a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest …
Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman-a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest i…
Introduction : lead into gold -- Visibilia -- Excursus : ambivalence -- Chemical nuptials -- Excursus : mercury -- A chemical couple -- Rumplestiltskin -- The sandman -- Excursus : counterfeiting -- Reading capital I, alchemically -- Digital gold.
