Quotes by : Philip Ball

A so-called antimony war had been waged between French [Galenist] physicians and [alchemical, Paracelsian]....

No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky....

It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades....

Peasants brought up on a tradition of superstitious magic could hardly be expected to distinguish between....