Histoire des sciences...La Chimie au Moyen Âge. Ouvrage publie sous les Auspices du Ministerie de L'Instruction Publique [Alchemy] Tome premier

UMI Pub, 2002. Reprint Facsimile. Original Wraps. Very Good. Reprint Facsimile. Original Wraps. Histoire des sciences traces the history of chemistry in the Middle Ages. Marcellin Berthelot (sometimes spelled Marcelin), born on October 25, 1827 in Paris where he died on March 18, 1907, is a French chemist, physical chemist, biologist, epistemologist and politician. The fundamental conception that underlay all Berthelot's chemical work was that all chemical phenomena depend on the action of physical forces which can be determined and measured. When he began his active career it was generally believed that, although some instances of the synthetic production of organic substances had been observed, on the whole organic chemistry remained an analytical science and could not become a constructive one, because the formation of the substances with which it deals required the intervention of vital activity in some shape.
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. 453pp. Illus. (b/w). Text in French translation. Tabbed by former owner. Former owner library stamp.