Dan Attrell lays out some debates among historians of western alchemy, especially with respects to the question: "Was Alchemy a science or a pseudoscience?"
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Nummedal, Tara. Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Pereira, Michela. "Alchemy and the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Late Middle Ages." Speculum 74 (2), 1999: 336-356.
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Wootton, David. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. UK: Allen Lane, 2015.
Alchemy, Science, and Pseudoscience
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