Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution

By William Royall Newman

Atoms And Alchemy: Chymistry And The Experimental Origins Of The Scientific Revolution

By William R. Newman, William Royall Newman, William Royall Newman, 1955-

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 Alc...

The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity

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Secrets Of Nature: Astrology And Alchemy In Early Modern Europe

By ANTHONY GRAFTON, Jed Z. Buchwald, William R. Newman

In Recent Years Scholars Have Begun To Acknowledge That The Occult Sciences Were Not Marginal Enterprises But An Integral Part Of The Worldview Of Many Of Our Ancestors. Astrology Was One Of The Ma...

Secrets Of Nature: Astrology And Alchemy In Early Modern Europe

By ANTHONY GRAFTON, Jed Z. Buchwald, William R. Newman

In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was one of the ma...

Secrets of nature

By William R. Newman, Anthony Grafton

Gehennical fire

By William Royall Newman

Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New England restoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit - Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an ade...

Newton The Alchemist: Science, Enigma, And The Quest For Nature'S "Secret Fire"

By William R. Newman, William Newman

When Isaac Newton's Alchemical Papers Surfaced At A Sotheby's Auction In 1936, The Quantity And Seeming Incoherence Of The Manuscripts Was Shocking. No Longer The Exemplar Of Enlightenment Rational...

The Works of Geber

By Richard Russell, E. J. Holmyard

Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry

By Allen G. Debus