Contents: An Outline of Alchemy; The Literature of Alchemy; The Philosopher's Stone; The Golden Tripod; The Mighty King; A Musical Alchemist; The Gardens of Hermes. "It's aim is to offer a bird's-eye view of chemistry's precursor, alchemy, followed by closer glimpses of certain fields of that richly coloured panorama of the ages.
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Contents: An Outline of Alchemy; The Literature of Alchemy; The Philosopher's Stone; The Golden Tripod; The Mighty King; A Musical Alchemist; The Gardens of Hermes. "It's aim is to offer a bird's-eye view of chemistry's precursor, alchemy, followed by closer glimpses of certain fields of that richly coloured panorama of the ages.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).
Add this copy of Prelude to Chemistry: an Outline of Alchemy to cart. $113.98, fair condition, Sold by Alplaus Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Alplaus, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by The MIT Press.
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Fair. Size: 5x0x8; MIT, 1966. Trade paperback, 328 pages. Covers, edges of text block obviously darkened and toning; edges also with several small stains, soiling. Gentle wear, binding sound, pages unmarked.
