The Arcanum : The Extraordinary True Story

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The Arcanum : The Extraordinary True Story
by Janet Gleeson

Warner Books
Hardcover - 324 pages
(February 1999)
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Since the middle ages, Western Europeans have practiced alchemy, a primitive form of chemistry, in the great hope of transforming base metal into gold. In the early 18th century, a second great secret puzzled Western Europe's early scientists: how to make porcelain. Recently arrived from the Orient,...

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