William Scott Shelley

William Scott Shelley is a highly respected scholar in the fields of botany and classical scientific literature. His previous books include The Elixir: An Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushrooms and The Origins of the Europeans: Classical Observations in Culture and Personality, a study of tribal origins in European history and their continuing role in the shaping of Europe from earliest times to the rise of the nation-state, and Science, Alchemy and the Great Plague of London (Algora, 2017).