What are the best books on the history of alchemy?
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asked a friend, who said this book was great:
See also the Kyle Fraser article on Zosimus iirc available on academia.edu and a nice treatment of Zosimus's lab work in Principe: Secrets of Alchemy. I believe a Zosimus episode is in the pipes at shwep.org which already has solid eps on alch+Hermetica
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