Philosophical Vinegar, Marvellous Salt
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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
by Jennifer M. Rampling.
Chicago, 408 pp., £28, December 2020,978 0 226 71070 9 Show More
by Jennifer M. Rampling.
Chicago, 408 pp., £28, December 2020,
“... epitome of the treasure of health’, which drew on the work of the 15th-century alchemists Thomas Norton and George Ripley, who in turn were indebted to the formulations of Ramon Llull, a 13th-century Majorcan polymath. The key to alchemy was deep reading, between texts and across the ages. Keynes’s scrabbling about for Newton’s papers was as ... ”