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Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
Atoms and Alchemy Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
Author: William R. Newman
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 Alchemy, William R. Newman?a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy?exposes the speciousness of these views and challen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226576961
ISBN-10: 0226576965
Publication Date: 5/15/2006
Pages: 235
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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