What are the best books on the history of alchemy?
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I think of as someone who has written very well about alchemy, though I'm not qualified to evaluate.
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Thank you, but I'm very much reliant on real experts. I'd suggest startin with Lawrence Principe's The Secrets of Alchemy (2012) (He wrote an excellent book on Boyle's alchemy too). Then, take a look at the work of William Newman at Indiana, ...
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asked a friend, who said this book was great:
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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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This is quite historical 😁
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