MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009281165
003 DLC
005 20100310095520.0
008 090910s2008 enkaf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009281165
015 $aGBA820747$2bnb
016 7 $a014525522$2Uk
020 $a9781847251480 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn195733528
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aQD13$b.M39 2008
082 04 $a540.112$222
100 1 $aMaxwell-Stuart, P. G.
245 14 $aThe chemical choir /$cP.G. Maxwell-Stuart.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York, NY :$bContinuum Books,$c2008.
300 $axii, 200 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aChina: the golden rod to immortality -- India: the way of tantra and mercury -- Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness -- The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers -- Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world -- The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath -- Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century -- Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- A child of earler times: the twentieth century.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-196) and index.
650 0 $aAlchemy$xHistory.