Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt

Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

Theresa Levitt with Esther Wane (Narrator)

8 hours, 47 minutes • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction health history mathematics science technology
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A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distinction between natural and synthetic chemicals that inaugurated an enduring scientific mystery.For centuries, scientists believed that living matter ...

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