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Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry History of Medicine and treatmentsPrincipe, Lawrence M., ed., 2007, xiii + 274 pp., illus., cloth bound and jacketed This work brings together the work of more than twenty eminent researchers from around the globe. Presented at an international conference held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia in 2006, these papers cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Chymistry (that is, alchemy and early chemistry) is currently receiving an