Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-3
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-Volume 3
by Charles Mackay
MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.
BY CHARLES MACKAY.
"Il est bon de connaitre les delires de l'esprit humain.
Chaque peuple a ses folies plus ou moins grossieres."
Millot
VOL. III.
CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
BOOK I.
INTRODUCTION
THE ALCHYMISTS; or, Searchers for the Philosopher's Stone and the Water of Life
PART I. -- History of Alchymy from the earli ...