« Decknamen or pseudochemical language » ? Eirenaeus Philalethes and Carl Jung
William R. Newman (*)
of alchemy
The reader familiar with alchemical literature will know very well the obscurity in which many practitioners of the art veiled their ideas. Indeed, the figurative language of these texts is such
(*) Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
Rev. Hist. Sci., 1996, 49/2-3, 159-188
