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414 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393079463
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 22 July 2013
Description
Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners ...
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414 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393079463
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 22 July 2013
Description
Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners ...