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Playing with (experimental) fire

Jennifer M. Rampling: The experimental fire: inventing English alchemy, 1300–1700. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 416pp, $35.00 HB

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  • Newman, William R. 2019. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for nature’s “Secret Fire.” Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Clucas, S. Playing with (experimental) fire. Metascience 30, 185–189 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00651-2

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