图解炼金术

Alchemy Illustrated

基本信息

Series:Chinese Bound Illustrated

Publisher:Amber Books Ltd

Imprint:Amber Books

ISBN:9781838865917

Published:14 Sep 2025

Weight:1210g

Dimensions:265 x 196 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

炼金术长期以来被神秘地笼罩，如今已被公认为现代化学的鼻祖。在现代科学出现之前，炼金术是一门古老的转化艺术，一种将物质组合起来以创造神圣力量的方法。如今，炼金术仍然对人们的想象力有着强大的吸引力，它流传着将贱金属变成黄金，以及混合药剂以制造长生药的传说。

《图解炼金术》为这门失传的艺术提供了一本生动的图解指南，向读者介绍了炼金术的主要发展以及涉足这门推测性科学的知名的人物。探索炼金术元素及其特性，它是元素周期表的前身，其中包括铋、硫和月银等物质，月银象征着直觉、复活和启迪；了解“贤者之石”，一种神秘的炼金术物质，能够将贱金属变成黄金，艾萨克·牛顿等知名科学家也曾致力于研究它，他一生撰写了超过一百万字的炼金术著作；并邂逅亨尼格·布兰德，他于1669年在炼金术实验中偶然发现了磷元素。《图解炼金术》采用精美的中国传统装帧，向读者介绍了炼金术的历史、实践、符号以及历代知名的炼金术士。

Long shrouded in secrecy, alchemy is now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry. Before the advent of modern science, alchemy was the ancient art of transformation, a way of combining matter to create a divine force. Today alchemy retains a strong pull on the imagination, with its tales of turning base metals into gold and mixing potions to create the elixir of life, a draught that brings immortality.

Alchemy Illustrated offers a vivid illustrated guide to this lost art, introducing the reader to the main developments in alchemy and the most famous people to have dabbled in this speculative science. Discover the alchemical elements and their properties, a precursor to the periodic table, which included such substances such as bismuth, sulfur and moon-silver, the last of these symbolizing intuition, resurrection and illumination; learn about the Philosopher’s Stone, a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals into gold, and pursued by famous scientists such as Isaac Newton, who wrote more than a million words on alchemy during his lifetime; and encounter Hennig Brand, who in 1669 accidentally discovered the chemical element phosphorus during alchemical experimentation. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese binding, Alchemy Illustrated introduces the reader to the history of alchemy, its practice, symbols and famous alchemists through the ages.

作者简介

迈克尔·克里根毕业于英国牛津大学圣爱德华学院和大学学院。他著有《世界历史》、《二战中的废弃之地》、《冷战》。他是一位专栏作家、书评家，并为《苏格兰人报》和《泰晤士报文学增刊》等出版物撰写专题文章。迈克尔·克里根与家人现居爱丁堡。

Michael Kerrigan was educated at St. Edward’s College and University College, Oxford, England. He is the author of History of the World, Abandoned Places of World War II, The Cold War . He is a columnist, book reviewer, and feature writer for publications including the Scotsman and the Times Literary Supplement. Michael Kerrigan lives with his family in Edinburgh.