Hagen, Margareth (Author)
Skagen, Margery Vibe (Author)
Aarhus University Press
Physical Details: 338 pp.; ill.
Language: English
This book investigates literary and chemical encounters, from medieval alchemy to contemporary science fiction, in works of the likes of Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire and Dag Solstad as well as in literary writing of scientists such as Humphry Davy, Ludwig Boltzmann and Oliver Sachs.
...MoreReview Knight, David (2015) Review of "Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 302-303).
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