Joan Baptista Van Helmont
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Joan Baptista Van Helmont
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Author : Walter Pagel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-27
Joan Baptista Van Helmont written by Walter Pagel 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 2002-06-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An intellectual biography of Van Helmont (1579-1644), showing a scholarly appreciation of his creative insights.
Joan Baptista Van Helmont
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Author : Walter Pagel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Joan Baptista Van Helmont written by Walter Pagel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
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.
Hermippus Redivivus
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Author : Johann Heinrich Cohausen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Hermippus Redivivus written by Johann Heinrich Cohausen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Health categories.
Genesis And The Chemical Philosophy
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Author : Michael Thomson Walton
language : en
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Release Date : 2011
Genesis And The Chemical Philosophy written by Michael Thomson Walton and has been published by Gwasg y Bwthyn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Alchemy categories.
"In the following pages, I will outline the complex intellectual traditions surrounding the interaction of chemistry and Genesis from classical times into the seventeenth century. I will detail the baptism of chemistry into a Christian natural philosophy by Paracelsus and his heirs in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Chemical philosophers reexamined matter theory in light of Genesis. They developed a new epistemology, which focused on experiencing nature rather than relying on accepted texts. This attitude fostered quantitative experimentation, which ultimately transformed chemistry. With this transformation, Genesis itself lost its importance; the 'reading' of nature was no longer dependent on theological considerations. Chemistry moved from a theological to secular interpretation of nature, as is found in modern science."--Preface, p. xiii.
Science And Technology In World History Volume 4
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Author : David Deming
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-04-13
Science And Technology In World History Volume 4 written by David Deming and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-13 with History categories.
The history of science is a story of human discovery--intertwined with religion, philosophy, economics and technology. The fourth in a series, this book covers the beginnings of the modern world, when 16th-century Europeans began to realize that their scientific achievements surpassed those of the Greeks and Romans. Western Civilization organized itself around the idea that human technological and moral progress was achievable and desirable. Science emerged in 17th-century Europe as scholars subordinated reason to empiricism. Inspired by the example of physics, men like Robert Boyle began the process of changing alchemy into the exact science of chemistry. During the 18th century, European society became more secular and tolerant. Philosophers and economists developed many of the ideas underpinning modern social theories and economic policies. As the Industrial Revolution fundamentally transformed the world by increasing productivity, people became more affluent, better educated and urbanized, and the world entered an era of unprecedented prosperity and progress.
The Secrets Of Alchemy
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Author : Lawrence Principe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013
The Secrets Of Alchemy written by Lawrence Principe 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 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been dismissed as the realm of myth and magic, or fraud and pseudoscience. And while its themes and ideas persist in some expected and unexpected places, from the Philosopher's (or Sorcerer's) Stone of Harry Potter to the self-help mantra of transformation, there has not been a serious, accessible, and up-to-date look at the complete history and influence of alchemy until now.
Ortus Medicinae Id Est Initia Physicae Inaudita Progressus Medicinae Novus In Morborum Ultionem Ad Vitam Longam Authore Joan Baptista Van Helmont Edente Authoris Filio Francisco Mercurio Van Helmont Cum Ejus Praefatione Ex Belgi Co Translata
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Author : Jan Baptist Van Helmont
language : la
Publisher:
Release Date : 1655
Ortus Medicinae Id Est Initia Physicae Inaudita Progressus Medicinae Novus In Morborum Ultionem Ad Vitam Longam Authore Joan Baptista Van Helmont Edente Authoris Filio Francisco Mercurio Van Helmont Cum Ejus Praefatione Ex Belgi Co Translata written by Jan Baptist Van Helmont and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1655 with categories.
A Philosophical Path For Paracelsian Medicine
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Author : Jole Shackelford
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2004
A Philosophical Path For Paracelsian Medicine written by Jole Shackelford and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Medicine categories.
The great Paracelsian scholar Walter Pagel and the pioneer medical historian Kurt Polycarp Sprengel identified Petrus Severinus' Idea Medicinæ (1571) as an influential vehicle for the elaboration and diffusion of Paracelsian ideas in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a process that has recently come under renewed scrutiny. Severinus' conception that diseases grow from living, seed-like entities proved to be an especially important idea, which was recognized by prominent scientific and medical authors from Oswald Croll and Daniel Sennert to Pierre Gassendi and Robert Boyle. But they also formed a useful theoretical model for reconciling ideas about physical causation with certain Christian Platonist concerns in Protestant theology. A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine is the first book-length monograph to treat Severinus, a Danish royal physician and contemporary of the great astronomer Tycho Brahe, and to present his ideas in their historical context as well as considering their ramifications for medical and religious theory in the decades prior to the Thirty Years' War. This book will prove to be a useful tool in the reexamination of the process by which Paracelsian ideas were spread and assimilated and will appeal to all those interested the intellectual background for the work of Tycho Brahe and his students and the role of Paracelsian and Hermetic metaphysical ideas in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
Bibliography On The History Of Chemistry And Chemical Technology 17th To The 19th Century
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Author : Valentin Wehefritz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-06-24
Bibliography On The History Of Chemistry And Chemical Technology 17th To The 19th Century written by Valentin Wehefritz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.