The Chemical Choir : A History of Alchemy.

Cover -- Half-title -- Others -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 China: The Golden Road to Immortality -- 2 India: The Way of Tantra and Mercury -- 3 Roman Egypt: The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness -- 4 The Islamic World: Balance and Magic Numbers -- 5 Mediaeval Europe: Translations, Debates and Symbols -- 6 The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World -- 7 The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath -- 8 Theology Wearing a Mask of Science: The Later Seventeenth Century -- 9 Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 10 A Child of Earlier Times: The Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Plates 1 -- Plates 2 -- Plates 3 -- Plates 4 -- Plates 5 -- Plates 6 -- Plates 7 -- Plates 8.

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