Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie

Abstract

OF all works on the history of alchemy and early chemistry, that to which reference is made most frequently and with most confidence is Prof. E. O. von Lippmann's “Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie”. Published in 1919, it immediately became indispensable to every student of the subject, and in the twelve years that have elapsed since its first appearance, its reputation as a masterpiece of wide learning and careful scholarship has become thoroughly established. Those twelve years have, however, seen the publication of much research upon the history of chemistry and alchemy—an amount probably greater than in any previous period of the same length—so that we must count ourselves fortunate in the fact that Prof, von Lippmann's seventy odd years have apparently in no degree diminished his prodigious activity. Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie. Von Prof. Dr. Edmund O. von Lippmann. Band 2: Ein Lese- und Nachschlage-Buch. Pp. vii + 257. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931.) 26.60 gold marks.