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03227cam a2200421 i 4500 |
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2014003742 |
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DLC |
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20190729105335.0 |
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140130s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2014003742 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781616149154 |
| Qualifying information |
hardback |
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1616149159 |
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hardback |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9781616149161 (ebook) |
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pcc |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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MvI |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
EY8Z |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QD13 |
| Item number |
.C63 2014 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
540.1/12 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cobb, Cathy. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The chemistry of alchemy : |
| Remainder of title |
from dragon's blood to donkey dung, how chemistry was forged / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Cathy Cobb, Monty Fetterolf, and Harold Goldwhite. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Amherst, New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Prometheus Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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364 pages: |
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illustrations (some color) ; |
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24 cm |
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text |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
X-rated alchemy -- Setting the scene. Stirring the fires ; The Zosimos effect ; Demonstration 1. Calcination, distillation ,transmutation! ; Islamic authors : romancing the stone ; Demonstration 2. The mercury/sulfur makeup of metals -- Alchemy in the middle. Middle-aged alchemy ; Auld Michael and the fractious friars ; Demonstration 3. The firing and falsifying of gold ; Geber and the sum of perfection ; Demonstration 4. Divine waters ; Aqua vitae! ; Demonstration 5. Burning waters ; Philosophers' stone ; Demonstration 6. Erina's fabulous philosophers' stone ; Rocky romance : miners and magick in the Renaissance ; Demonstration 7. The parting of gold ; Paradigm, paradox : Paracelsus ; Demonstration 8. Diana and the Homunculus -- Alchemical Renaissance. Paracelsus is dead, long live Paracelsus ; Paracelsian women ; Demonstration 9. Book of secrets ; Paracelsian men ; Demonstration 10. Transmutation revisited ; Charlatans and chicanery ; Demonstration 11. Tricks of the trade ; What can you do with a degree in alchemy? ; Demonstration 12. Practical alchemy ; Renaissance alchemical authors ; Demonstration 13. Lifting the mystical fog ; Sendivogius and Rudolf : fire and salt ; Demonstration 14. The Poo Plan ; Johannes van Helmont : the art of fire ; Demonstration 15. The gas that got away -- Thoroughly modern alchemy. Full-blown alchemy ; Digby and Drebble : something in the air ; Demonstration 16. Up in the air ; The Society of Jesus and the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross ; Demonstration : The Jesuit workroom ; Glauber's salt and Glauber's gold ; Demonstration 18. Glauber's ghostly golden garden ; The Harvard alchemists-- and the Honorable Robert Boyle begins ; Demonstration 19. Reduction to the pristine state ; Robert Boyle ends-- and so do we ; Demonstration 20. The color of alchemy -- Alabaster and clay -- Stores and ores. |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Chemistry |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
16th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Chemistry |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
17th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Alchemy |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
16th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Alchemy |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
17th century. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fetterolf, Monty L. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Goldwhite, Harold. |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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u375689 |
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