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ALCHEMY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ELIXIRS, EXPERIMENTS, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE BY PHILIP BALL Tees BookRiot's Best New Nonfiction |Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy Philip Balls book is a treasure: beautifully illustrated and, as usual, the author caries his learning lightly.David Wootton, Spectator The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people since antiquity. Many early cultures are known to have experimented with chemical transformations: from dyes, glazes, and