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250 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226576978
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 May 2006
Description
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 credi...
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250 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226576978
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 May 2006
Description
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 credi...