Alchemy Revisited
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Alchemy Revisited
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Author : Z. R. W. M. Von Martels
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1990
Alchemy Revisited written by Z. R. W. M. Von Martels and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Science categories.
Alchemy Revisited
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Author : Martels
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-14
Alchemy Revisited written by Martels and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with History categories.
The contributors to these Proceedings give an unusually comprehensive survey of Indian, Greek, Arabic and European alchemy which will serve as an authoritative scholarly introduction to the subject. An extensive bibliography greatly enhances the value of this rich collection of material.
Alchemy Revisited
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Author : C. G. Vlassis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Alchemy Revisited written by C. G. Vlassis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Chemistry categories.
Robert Boyle Reconsidered
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Author : Michael Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-18
Robert Boyle Reconsidered written by Michael Hunter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627-91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America that scrutinize Boyle's writing on science, philosophy and theology, bringing out the subtlety and complexity of his ideas. Particular attention is given to Boyle's interest in alchemy and to other facets of his ideas that might initially seem surprising in a leading advocate of the mechanical philosophy. Many of the essays use material from among Boyle's extensive manuscripts, which have recently been catalogued for the first time. The introduction surveys the state of Boyle studies and deploys the findings of the essays to offer a reevaluation of Boyle. The book also includes a complete bibliography of writings on Boyle since 1940.
Alchemy Tried In The Fire
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Author : William R. Newman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Alchemy Tried In The Fire written by William R. Newman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Science categories.
Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeenth century alchemist? How did he direct his quest after the secrets of Nature? What instruments and theoretical principles did he employ? Using, as their guide, the previously misunderstood interactions between Robert Boyle, widely known as "the father of chemistry," and George Starkey, an alchemist and the most prominent American scientific writer before Benjamin Franklin as their guide, Newman and Principe reveal the hitherto hidden laboratory operations of a famous alchemist and argue that many of the principles and practices characteristic of modern chemistry derive from alchemy. By analyzing Starkey's extraordinary laboratory notebooks, the authors show how this American "chymist" translated the wildly figurative writings of traditional alchemy into quantitative, carefully reasoned laboratory practice—and then encoded his own work in allegorical, secretive treatises under the name of Eirenaeus Philalethes. The intriguing "mystic" Joan Baptista Van Helmont—a favorite of Starkey, Boyle, and even of Lavoisier—emerges from this study as a surprisingly central figure in seventeenth-century "chymistry." A common emphasis on quantification, material production, and analysis/synthesis, the authors argue, illustrates a continuity of goals and practices from late medieval alchemy down to and beyond the Chemical Revolution. For anyone who wants to understand how alchemy was actually practiced during the Scientific Revolution and what it contributed to the development of modern chemistry, Alchemy Tried in the Fire will be a veritable philosopher's stone.
Alchemy Paracelsianism And Shakespeare S The Winter S Tale
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Author : Martina Zamparo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-05
Alchemy Paracelsianism And Shakespeare S The Winter S Tale written by Martina Zamparo and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
Science Alchemy And The Great Plague Of London
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Author : William Scott Shelley
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-10
Science Alchemy And The Great Plague Of London written by William Scott Shelley and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Science categories.
The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England
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Author : Jonathan Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-08
The Rise Of Alchemy In Fourteenth Century England written by Jonathan Hughes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-08 with History categories.
Alchemists did more than try to transmute base metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines and advocated the regeneration of matter and spirit. This book illustrates how this new branch of thought became increasingly popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread throughout England.Adopted by those in court and the circles of nobility for their own physical and spiritual needs, it was adapted for the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of the illnesses of the body politic and its head, the king. This is the first work to synthesize all aspects of alchemy and show its contribution to intellectual, social and political life in the fourteenth century. Hughes explores a rich body of manuscripts to reveal the daily routines of the alchemist and his imaginative mindscape, and considers the contribution of alchemy to the vernacular culture and political debate, leading to a reassessment of the intellectual life of the middle ages.
Alchemy And Chemistry In The 16th And 17th Centuries
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Author : P. Rattansi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-07
Alchemy And Chemistry In The 16th And 17th Centuries written by P. Rattansi and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with History categories.
The present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on "Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989. The Colloquium focused on a number of selected themes during a closely defined chronological interval: on the relation of alchemy and chemistry to medicine, philosophy, religion, and to the corpuscular philosophy, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The relations between Medicina and alchemy in the Lullian treatises were examined in the opening paper by Michela Pereira, based on researches on unpublished manuscript sources in the period between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is several decades since the researches of R.F. Multhauf gave a prominent role to Johannes de Rupescissa in linking medicine and alchemy through the concept of a quinta essentia. Michela Pereira explores the significance of the Lullian tradition in this development and draws attention to the fact that the early Paracelsians had themselves recognized a family resemblance between the works of Paracelsus and Roger Bacon's scientia experimentalis and, indeed, a continuity with the Lullian tradition.
Bibliography Of The History Of Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Bibliography Of The History Of Medicine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Medicine categories.