Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman

Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution

William R. Newman

235 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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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 credite...

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