Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scop

Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those w

Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeenth century alchemist?

However, in such a snowstorm this year, on the streets of Karazan, there is suddenly a young man who is constantly running and exercising every day.

Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist.