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Book Title: The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Experimental Fire : Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1.7 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), History, Chemistry / General
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jennifer M. Rampling
Subject Area: Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Synthesis Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
