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020			_a9781616149154 _qhardback
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050	0	0	_aQD13 _b.C63 2014
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100	1		_aCobb, Cathy.
245	1	4	_aThe chemistry of alchemy : _bfrom dragon's blood to donkey dung, how chemistry was forged / _cCathy Cobb, Monty Fetterolf, and Harold Goldwhite.
264		1	_aAmherst, New York : _bPrometheus Books, _c2014.
300			_a364 pages: _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index.
505	0		_aX-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.
650		0	_aChemistry _xHistory _y16th century.
650		0	_aChemistry _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aAlchemy _xHistory _y16th century.
650		0	_aAlchemy _xHistory _y17th century.
700	1		_aFetterolf, Monty L.
700	1		_aGoldwhite, Harold.
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