%0 Journal Article %A Thomas Willard %D 2024 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J Mediaevistik %@ 2199-806X %N 1 %V 36 %T Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, Synthesis series, paperback (2020; paperback ed., Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2023), xvii, 408 pp., 16 halftone figures %R 10.3726/med.2023.01.49 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1517777 %X In the brief but essential preface to