The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700: by Jennifer M. Rampling, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2020, xvii + 408 pp., $35.00 (Hardback); £28.00, ISBN 9780226710709 [Book Review]

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