Magonia Review of Books

... has a critical-but-fair look at the Dictionary of Western Alchemy.  She points out a half dozen terms she'd like to have seen included (as well as stating an omission-that-wasn't), but if someone found even 25 terms missing, the book would be only 5% larger than it is now.  And if I'd stopped at 525 terms instead of 500, someone would mind that I had missed another two.  To me this just speaks to the breadth of the discipline.  And I chuckled at the assertion that one could find all the various bits of the book online, which is more or less true, although in a loss of context, and it raises the question as to why anyone would buy Rumi or Whitman in paperback when it's all available on Project Gutenburg. What are books, exactly?

Most of the review states the obvious – this is not a manual for lab chemistry, and the book is therefore dismissed as "whimsical", which I rather like.

http://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2011/11/alchemy-words-and-meanings.html