The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 by Jennifer M. Rampling

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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

Jennifer M. Rampling

416 pages hardcover

3 editions

nonfiction history science
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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 co...

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