Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Mesopotamia
- Part II Egypt
- Part III Greek and Greco-Roman
- 9 Physical and Cosmological Thought Before Aristotle
- 10 Aristotle: An Overview
- 11 Aristotle’s Physical Theory
- 12 Aristotle and the Origins of Zoology
- 13 Botany
- 14 Science after Aristotle: Hellenistic and Roman Science
- 15 Late Antiquity: Science in the Philosophical Schools
- 16 Medicine in Early and Classical Greece
- 17 Hellenistic and Roman Medicine
- 18 Greek Mathematics
- 19 Greco-Roman Astronomy and Astrology
- 20 Greek and Greco-Roman Geography
- 21 Greek Optics
- 22 Harmonics
- 23 Greek Mechanics
- 24 Greco-Egyptian Alchemy
- Part IV India
- Part V China
- Index
24 - Greco-Egyptian Alchemy
from Part III - Greek and Greco-Roman
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Mesopotamia
- Part II Egypt
- Part III Greek and Greco-Roman
- 9 Physical and Cosmological Thought Before Aristotle
- 10 Aristotle: An Overview
- 11 Aristotle’s Physical Theory
- 12 Aristotle and the Origins of Zoology
- 13 Botany
- 14 Science after Aristotle: Hellenistic and Roman Science
- 15 Late Antiquity: Science in the Philosophical Schools
- 16 Medicine in Early and Classical Greece
- 17 Hellenistic and Roman Medicine
- 18 Greek Mathematics
- 19 Greco-Roman Astronomy and Astrology
- 20 Greek and Greco-Roman Geography
- 21 Greek Optics
- 22 Harmonics
- 23 Greek Mechanics
- 24 Greco-Egyptian Alchemy
- Part IV India
- Part V China
- Index
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 468 - 482Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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