Thursday, January 21, 2010

1st February

We shall meet, as usual, from 7.30-9pm in room G03 of the Mary Allan Building, Homerton College. We continue our explorations of alchemy and chemistry with Honoré de Balzac's La Recherche de l'absolu (1834). This has been translated into English at least three times: by William Robson as Balthazar; or, Science and Love (1859), by Katharine Prescott Wormeley as The Alkahest: or, The House of Claës (1887), and by Ellen Marriage as The Quest of the Absolute (1895). We will use the Ellen Marriage translation, as this is the cheapest one to buy in paperback reprint.  Various texts are also available online from Google Books, Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg. Alternatively, I shall put my copy of the book in the Whipple Library box-file from Monday 25th for reading in the library.

All welcome!

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