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Author : Didier Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Alchimie written by Didier Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Wamberg
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763502672
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Art & Alchemy written by Jacob Wamberg and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These richly illustrated articles cover the representation of alchemy in art from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. The authors, who are artists, curators and art historians from the US and Europe, address such topics as alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist and modernist art; Netherlandish 17th-century portrayals of alchemists; and alchemy as the forerunner of photography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Christian Montesinos
Publisher : Numérilivre
ISBN 13 : 2366322356
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Histoire de l'alchimie, histoire d'un grand malentendu ? written by Christian Montesinos and published by Numérilivre. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Et si l’alchimie était la fille d’un grand malentendu ? Après son Dictionnaire raisonné de l’Alchimie et des Alchimistes l’auteur s’attache à une étude monumentale qui faisait défaut. L’histoire de cette science mystérieuse, l’alchimie. Son attrait en constitue un des premiers mystères. De nos jours encore, le nombre de ses disciples, s’ils sont discrets, est toujours aussi grand. La littérature consacrée à cette science antique est plus qu’abondante ; elle est immense. Le chiffre de 100 000 traités ou manuscrits et études n’est pas surestimé ! Comment expliquer une telle prolifération, un tel attrait ? Pour l’auteur, à qui l’on doit déjà le Dictionnaire de l’Alchimie et des Alchimistes, seule l’histoire de l’alchimie, des origines à nos jours peut répondre à cette question. L’auteur dresse le portrait de tous ces livres au cours des siècles en montrant la lente édification de l’alchimie. Procédant à une étude fouillée et magistrale, d’une érudition rare, il étudie de quelle manière les traités s’enrichirent les uns des autres, alors que l’alchimie à l’origine naquit d’un grand malentendu. Auteurs pseudo épigraphes, hommes d’Église, savants, le plus grand nombre pensait qu’il était possible de faire de l’or, et ceci né de l’interprétation d’un seul mot qui égara le plus grand nombre. Profusion des traités confusions, erreurs de traduction, reprises maladroites, nouveaux courants de pensée, édifièrent peu à peu l’alchimie jusqu’à la formation d’un corpus classique, et l’apparition de nouvelles branches alchimiques. Avec brio, l’auteur déroule une histoire complexe et prodigieuse qui nourrit encore les rêves. Ce livre procède à l’implacable analyse d’un mythe, pour lui substituer une réalité toute aussi palpable et pourtant digne de l’intérêt qu’on lui témoigne. Richement illustré, avec les indispensables références, muni d’un index complet, il répond enfin à la grande question des origines de l’alchimie et de sa véritable nature.
Author : Lawrence Principe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226682951
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of Alchemy written by Lawrence Principe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Guy Piau
Publisher : Numérilivre
ISBN 13 : 2366322496
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)
Download or read book L'Alchimie - Histoire et Actualités written by Guy Piau and published by Numérilivre. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchimie. A l’évocation de ce mot moyenâgeux, surgit immédiatement l’image d’un occultiste enturbanné et fébrile, entouré de fioles et de cornues remplies de liquides multicolores. Les yeux fixés sur son athanor rougeoyant, il attend le miracle. Le feu va-t-il transformer la lamelle de plomb enfournée, en cet or liquide tant attendu ? ! Au delà de ce cliché, symbolisant avec l’hypothétique transmutation des métaux, l’art de purifier l’impur en imitant les processus de la nature, l’alchimie c’est d’abord l’histoire itinérante d’un concept. Celle que nous raconte Guy Piau - historien reconnu de cette discipline - dans le présent livre, remarquablement documenté et soucieux du détail, avant d’en dégager une philosophie humaniste pertinente. L’alchimie, primitivement chinoise puis indienne, arrive à Alexandrie aux IIe et IIIe siècle. Grâce aux Arabes, elle gagne l’Europe où l’hermétisme chrétien favorise son essor. De Jahir Ibn Hayann al Sufi à Raymond Lulle, de Nicolas Flamel à Paracelse, praticiens célèbres, c’est une alchimie sans cesse actualisée qui réussit à traverser le temps, du VIIIe au XXe siècle. Elle est ainsi accueillie, entre autres, par Carl Jung le psychanalyste et Gaston Bachelard le philosophe, qui la transmutent eux-mêmes en matière à penser. Guy Piau ne manque pas de nous rappeler ce que doit la franc-maçonnerie spéculative à l’alchimie, par le biais de l’hermétisme. Cette doctrine occulte, vecteur s’il en est de l’esprit alchimique, a hautement enrichi la palette allégorique de l’art Royal, avec, entre autres, la métamorphose de la matière, la panacée et l’immortalité. Autant de métaphores, à visée de célébration de la vie, qui escortent la démarche initiatique du franc-maçon, de la franc-maçonne. Ne s’agit-il pour eux, de mourir et renaître symboliquement, à la manière du Phénix qui renaît de ses cendres ? ! L’originalité de cet ouvrage s’affirme dans la belle réussite de l’auteur à faire de la raison et la poésie conjuguées, les compagnes de l’alchimie. Il nous montre que l’Homme, enfant de l’univers, n’est jamais davantage Homme que dans son vaillant cheminement vers l’inaccessible étoile. C’est là, sur cette traînée de lumière, qu’il se transforme par la réflexion. Et que brille soudain l’or de sa pensée !
Author : Urszula Szulakowska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577182
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Alchemy in Contemporary Art written by Urszula Szulakowska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes the manner in which twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the 1920s, have appropriated concepts and imagery from the western alchemical tradition. This study examines artistic production from c. 1920 to the present, with an emphasis on the 1970s to 2000, discussing familiar names such as Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys, and Anselm Kiefer, as well as many little known artists of the later twentieth century. It provides a critical overview of the alchemical tradition in twentieth-century art, and of the use of occultist imagery as a code for political discourse and polemical engagement. The study is the first to examine the influence of alchemy and the Surrealist tradition on Australian as well as on Eastern European and Mexican art. In addition, the text considers the manner in which women artists such as Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Rebecca Horn have critically revised the traditional sexist imagery of alchemy and occultism for their own feminist purposes.
Author : Marcellin Berthelot
Publisher : Primento
ISBN 13 : 2335030205
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Les Origines de l'Alchimie written by Marcellin Berthelot and published by Primento. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait :"Le monde est aujourd'hui sans mystère : la conception rationnelle prétend tout éclairer et tout comprendre ; elle s'efforce de donner de toute chose une explication positive et logique, et elle étend son déterminisme jusqu'au monde moral..."
Author : David Marshall Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108420303
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution written by David Marshall Miller and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.
Author : Urszula Szulakowska
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004116900
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy of Light written by Urszula Szulakowska and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-examination of alchemical engravings of the late Renaissance uses an innovative semiotic method in analysing their geometrical and optical rhetorical devices. The images are contextualised within contemporary metaphysics, specifically, the discourse of light, and in Protestant reformism.
Author : Katja Krause
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000620182
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation written by Katja Krause and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point from which to view translation as a process of interaction between diff erent epistemic domains. The book is structured around four dimensions of translation—between terms within and across languages; across sciences and scientific norms; between verbal and visual systems; and through the expertise of practitioners and translators—which raise key questions on what constituted experience of the natural world in the premodern area and the impact of translation processes and agents in shaping experience. Providing a wide-ranging global account of historical studies on the travel and translation of experience in the premodern world, this book will be of interest to scholars in history, the history of translation, and the history and philosophy of science.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414614
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Byzantine Science written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science in Byzantium has rarely been systematically explored. A first of its kind, this collection of essays highlights the disciplines, achievements, and contexts of Byzantine science across the eleven centuries of the Byzantine empire. After an introduction on science in Byzantium and the 21st century, and a study of Christianization and the teaching of science in Byzantium, it offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the scientific disciplines cultivated in Byzantium, from the exact to the natural sciences, medicine, polemology, and the occult sciences. The volume showcases the diversity and vivacity of the varied scientific endeavours in the Byzantine world across its long history, and aims to bring the field into broader conversations within Byzantine studies, medieval studies, and history of science. Contributors are Fabio Acerbi, Anne-Laurence Caudano, Gonzalo Andreotti Cruz, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Herve Inglebert, Stavros Lazaris, Divna Manolova, Maria K. Papathanassiou, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Thomas Salmon, Ioannis Telelis, Anne Tihon, Alain Touwaide, Arnaud Zucker.
Author : Dóra Bobory
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810932
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Sword and the Crucible. Count Boldizsár Batthyány and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century Hungary written by Dóra Bobory and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century a new type of practitioner emerges in Europe: the aristocrat who not only supports creative activities, but is personally involved in the projects he finances. The courts of noblemen and other wealthy individuals are transformed into new sites of knowledge production where medicinal waters are distilled, exotic plants cultivated, and alchemical experiments pursued. This new fascination with nature, and the wish to explore and exploit its explicit and hidden mechanisms, was an intellectual trend that spread all over Europe, reaching even the easternmost parts of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Hungarian Count Boldizsár Batthyány (c.1542–1590), a powerful aristocrat and formidable warrior, was also a passionate devotee of natural philosophy. His Western Hungarian court was the focal point of an intellectual network which comprised scholars—such as the renowned botanist Carolus Clusius—physicians, book dealers, and fellow aristocrats from Central Europe and used his connections to exchange objects and information. Batthyány’s biography, his extensive correspondence and up-to-date book collection on natural philosophy—especially alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and botany—reveals that wealth, mobility and intellectual curiosity allowed him to share the enthusiasms of his Western European counterparts, and make the Muses speak even among arms.
Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : La Pomme d'or
ISBN 13 : 9548446022
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (484 download)
Download or read book The Occult Sciences in Byzantium written by Paul Magdalino and published by La Pomme d'or. This book was released on 2006 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the first attempt to examine occult sciences as a distinct category of Byzantine intellectual culture. It is concerned with both the reality and the image of the occult sciences in Byzantium, and seeks, above all, to represent them in their social and cultural context as a historical phenomenon. The eleven essays demonstrate that Byzantium was not marginal to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, and that the occult sciences were not marginal to the learned culture of the medieval Byzantine world.
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110821021X
Total Pages : 1438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium written by Anthony Kaldellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.
Author : Roger French
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429515014
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease written by Roger French and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medicine and the subsequent transplantation of European medicine worldwide.
Author : Urszula Szulakowska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893560
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Alchemical Virgin Mary in the Religious and Political Context of the Renaissance written by Urszula Szulakowska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. It discusses the reasons for such unexpected confessional survivals in a time of extreme Protestant iconoclasm and religious reform. The book presents an analysis of the manner in which Catholic doctrines concerning the Virgin Mary, the Holy Trinity and the Eucharist were an essential factor in the development of alchemical theory and illustration from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. The role of the Joachimites, radical members of the Franciscan Order, in the history of alchemy is an important issue. The Apocalypse of St. John (the Book of Revelation) and other scriptural texts and specifically Roman Catholic Marian devotions are also considered regarding their influences on late medieval alchemy and on the sixteenth and seventeenth century alchemical literature composed by Protestants. Additional issues explored here include the role played by alchemy in strengthening the leaders of the European defence against the invading Ottoman Turks, as well as the importance of the figure of the Virgin Mary as the Apocalyptic Woman in the same cause. Special consideration is given to the role played by the apocalyptic Mary within alchemical texts and pictures as an emblem of the mercurial quintessence and also in her form as the Bride of the scriptural Wisdom books which also entered alchemical discourse. Additional issues discussed in this book include the little-regarded problem of “confessional” alchemy, namely, whether there were distinct “Protestant” and “Roman Catholic” types of alchemy. The treatises under consideration include the Buch der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit (1419; 1433), the Rosarium Philosophorum (1550), Reusner’s Pandora (1582; 1588) and the Pandora of Faustius (1706), as well as the work of Michael Maier, Robert Fludd, Johann Daniel Mylius, Jacob Boehme and pseudo-Nicolas Flamel, among many others. Their works are contextualised within the religious reforms instigated by Martin Luther, as well as within the unorthodox radical theology devised by Paracelsus and his alchemical followers. The Marian theology of Paracelsus is also of particular interest here.
Author : Georgia L. Irby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118373049
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Georgia L. Irby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications and interdisciplinary themes 2 Volumes
