Alchemy and Alchemists

Alchemy and Alchemists

Sean Martin
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Author:  Sean Martin
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  160
Publisher:  Oldcastle Books Ltd
Year:  2015
ISBN:  9781843446095

Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools.

Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth. It is important to see the search for the philosopher's stone and the attempts to turn base metal into gold as metaphors for the relation of man to nature and man to God as much as seriously held beliefs.

Alchemy had a self-consistent outlook on the natural world and man's place in it. Alchemists like Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus were amongst the greatest minds of their time and the history of alchemy is both the history of a spiritual search and the history of a slowly developing scientific method. Sir Isaac Newton devoted as much time to his alchemical studies as he did to his mathematical ones.

This book traces the history of alchemy from ancient times to the 20th century, highlighting the interest of modern thinkers like Jung in the subject, and in the process covers a major, if neglected area of Western thought.

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