The Relation Of Alchemy To Science - Pamphlet
by F Sherwood Taylor
A Pocket Essential Short History of Alchemy and Alchemists (Pocket essentials: Ideas)
by Sean Martin
Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools. In this Pocket Essential Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth. It is important to see the search for the philosopher's stone and the attempts to turn base metal into gold as metaphors for the relation of man to nature and man to God as much as seriously held beliefs. Alchemy had a self-consistent outlook on the natural world and man's pla...
