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.
- ISBN10 0262680068
- ISBN13 9780262680066
- Publish Date 22 August 1966
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English