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Title:
Alchemy and Alchemists |
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Division: General Organic Chem / Others / 英文版 |
Author/Editor: Sean Martin Star:  |
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ISBN: 1904048625 |
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Introduce Date: 2008年03月25日22:06 , Release Date: 2008年03月25日22:45 |
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Introducer: 19203137 , Rate: 1/93 |
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Alchemy and Alchemists (Pocket Essentials: Ideas)
By: Sean Martin
ISBN-10: 1904048625 ISBN-13: 9781904048626
Publisher: Pocket Essentials - 2007-09-11
Hardcover | 2Rev Ed Edition | 160 Pages | List Price: $20.31 (USD) | Sales Rank: 3119639
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.9 x 1 inches
Alchemy has been with us since the beginning of recorded history. It has been present in almost every culture, from Old Kingdom Egypt and the China of Lao Tzu; from the Greece of Alexander the Great to the era of Islamic conquest; from the islands of the Indonesian archipelago to the twilight world of Victorian occultism. It has been called ‘the mightiest secret that a man [or woman] can possess’, yet it has also been derided as ‘the history of an error’. It has often been portrayed as a fraudulent, delusional quest for wealth and worldly power through the attempt to transmute base metals into gold, but has also been regarded as a Divine art, the highest gift of God, one that should only be practiced by the sincere seeker and the pure of heart.
Not only kings and princes lent their time and money to the study of alchemy. Eminent mediaeval scholars such as Albertus Magnus, Moses Maimonides, Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas all shared an interest in the quest for transmutation. Perhaps more interestingly, so did most of the founders of modern science, men such as Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton. Bacon discovered the properties of antimony, while the great Arab alchemist Alhazen invented the camera obscura.
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