James Hannam
James Hannam, PhD is a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge, with degrees in physics and history. He is the author of God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (2009), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (2023). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and lives in Kent with his wife and two teenage children.
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Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.