Source books · Alchemy

Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe

edited by William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton · 2001

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Alchemy
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The collection containing Principe and Newman's “Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy”, the essay that argues the spiritual reading is a Victorian and twentieth-century construction rather than what the sources say.

In copyright: cited by locator, never quoted. It is the other side of the argument this section has to present as an argument.