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43 - Alchemy

from Part IV - Science and Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Katherine Eggert
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Agrippa, Heinrich CorneliusalchemyAristotleBerowneCleopatraHermioneKing JohnLove’s Labour’s LostOthelloParacelsusProspero
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 309 - 316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Debus, Allen G. Chemistry, Alchemy and the New Philosophy, 1550–1700. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.Google Scholar
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Linton, Stanton J. Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1996.Google Scholar
Moran, Bruce T. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005.Google Scholar
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Newman, William R. Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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