1854 1st ed Alchemy & Alchemists Hermetic Occult Science Figuier Philosophy

1854 1^st ed Alchemy & Alchemists Hermetic Occult Science Figuier Philosophy

 

“Alchemy has not lost the privilege of arousing curiosity and seducing the imagination”

― Louis Figuier, Alchemy and Alchemists

 

Louis Figuier was a 19^th-century French chemist and compiler of scientific discoveries. He composed an essay on the history of alchemy, in which he describes alchemy as not a lost science but as an avenue for philosophical discovery and discussion. ‘Alchemy and Alchemists’ was first published in 1854 and is an important work containing expositions on hermetic doctrines and ends with a study of alchemy both ancient and 19^th-century perspectives.

 

Item number: #2643

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FIGUIER, Guillaume Louis

 

L’alchimie et les alchimistes, ou, Essai historique et critique sur la philosophie hermétique.

 

Paris : V. Lecou, 1854. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages: [4], IV, 386
• References: Caillet II, 3915;
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~7in X 4.75in (18cm x 12.5cm)

 

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