"By reconstructing the alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes of the late medieval and early modern periods in England, following Roger Bacon, George Ripley, John Dee, Robert Boyle, and many others, Jennifer Rampling reveals how alchemical ideas were continually copied and re…
"By reconstructing the alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes of the late medieval and early modern periods in England, following Roger Bacon, George Ripley, John Dee, Robert Boyle, and many others, Jennifer Rampling reveals how alchemical ideas were continually copied and re…
"By reconstructing the alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes of the late medieval and early modern periods in England, following Roger Bacon, George Ripley, John Dee, Robert Boyle, and many others, Jennifer Rampling reveals how alchemical ideas were continually copied and re…
In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defe…