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While it would not be correct to say that Philo's works have been "lost"--Scholars have always known and used Philo--they have essentially been "misplaced" as far as the average student of the Bible is concerned. Now the translation of the eminent classicist C.D. Yonge is available in an affordable, easy-to-read edition, with a new foreword and newly translated passages, and containing supposed fragments of Philo's writings from ancient authors such...

Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was written in 1796 after Wollstoncraft's return to England from a Scandinavian business trip taken on behalf of her lover Gilbert Imlay. It is a combination of travel writing, memoir, and philosophy based on journal entries and letters from the trip and includes observations on the conditions facing women in the countries visited.

This volume brings together papers presented at an international conference at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2006 by over twenty eminent researchers. The collection features work on the perennial issues of symbolism, textual exegesis, transmutation and the danger of fraud, as well as treatments of the intersections of alchemy with fine art, theology, archaeology, and gender. Chymists and Chymistry offers readers a wealth of new scholarship on...