The Chemical Choir: A History of AlchemyA pre cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the arts of smelting and alloying metals. In The Chemical Choir, P. G. Maxwell Stewart authoritatively traces the fascinating history of alchemy from its earliest incarnations right up to its legacy in modern science as we