ALCHEMY: ANCIENT AND MODERN

PLATE 1.

PORTRAIT OF PARACELSUS

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ALCHEMY: ANCIENT AND MODERN

BEING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ALCHEMISTIC DOC- TRINES, AND THEIR RELATIONS, TO MYSTICISM ON THE ONE HAND, AND TO RECENT DISCOVERIES IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE ON THE OTHER HAND; TOGETHER WITH SOME PARTICULARS REGARDING THE LIVES AND TEACHINGS OF THE MOST NOTED ALCHEMISTS

BY H. STANLEY REDGROVE, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.C.S. AUTHOR OF “ON THE CALCULATION OF THERMO-CHEMICAL CONSTANTS,” “MATTER, SPIRIT AND THE COSMOS,” ETC.

WITH 16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

SECOND AND REVISED EDITION

LONDON WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LTD. 8 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 4 1922

First published 1911

Second Edition 1922