Alchemy Science and Pseudoscience

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Dan Attrell lays out some debates among historians of western alchemy, especially with respects to the question: Was Alchemy a science or a pseudoscience? • Support The Modern Hermeticist: • www.patreon.com/themodernhermeticist • Purchase a copy of Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. (PSU Press, 2019) https://amzn.to/2TcdBnA (affiliate link) • Paypal tip jar: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/dattrell • http://www.themodernhermeticist.com • Selected Bibliography: • Ball, Philip. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. • Dear, Peter. Revolutionizing the Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. • Devun, Leah. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. • Eliade, Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible: A Postscript. History of Religions 8 (1), 1968: 74-88. • Eliade, Mircea, and Stephen Corrin (trans.). The Forge and the Crucible. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. • Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Theory and Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. • Hall, A. Rupert. The Scientific Revolution, 1500–1800: The Formation of a Modern Scientific Attitude. Boston: Beacon, 1962. • Holmyard, Eric J. Alchemy. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957. • Matus, Zachary. Alchemy and Christianity in the Middle Ages. History Compass 10/12, 2012: 934-945. • Newman, William R. What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy. Isis 102, 2, June 2011: 313-321. • Newman, William R., and Lawrence M. Principe. Alchemy vs. Chemistry: The Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake. Early Science and Medicine 3 (1), 1998: 32-65. • Nummedal, Tara. Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. • Pereira, Michela. Alchemy and the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Late Middle Ages. Speculum 74 (2), 1999: 336-356. • Principe, Lawrence M. The Secrets of Alchemy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. • Taylor, F. Sherwood. The Alchemists. New York: Barnes Noble, 1992. • Thompson, C. J. S. The Lure and Romance of Alchemy. London: George G. Harrap Co., 1932. • Wootton, David. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. UK: Allen Lane, 2015.

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