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Alchemy: Its Contribution to Human Thought

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by F. Sherwood Taylor, Ph.D. Director of the Science Museum South Kensington
Dr. Sherwood Taylor has made a special study of alchemy. In this talk he examines what might be called the technology of alchemy, which evolved into the chemical techniques and laboratories of today, and considers the mass of symbolic pictures left by the alchemists - pictures that illumine the medieval ideas of nature and man.

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