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Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems' expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.

Waddell reviews Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture edited by Stanton J. Linden.

Rampling interviews Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture edited by Stanton J. Linden.

Smith reviews The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton edited by Stanton J. Linden.

Several new resources for emblem studies are reviewed, including \"Emblems and Alchemy\" edited by Alison Adams and Stanton J. Linden; \"A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1\" by Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, and Alison Saunders; and \"Imitatio Crameriana\" by Hieronymus Ammon.

Principe reviews The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton edited by Stanton J. Linden.

History of science in the US has traditionally been dominated by the view that great thinkers lead revolutions that have led inexorably to today's current, obviously more correct, version of science. One of the key ideals in this view of scientific development is the move away from mysticism and superstition to experimentally verifiable science. Great thinkers saw clearly the errors of their times, fixed them, and moved humankind along to modern science and technology.

\"George Ripley's 'Compound of Alchymy'\" by George Ripley and edited by Stanton J. Linden is reviewed.