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Author : Christoph Meinel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Die Alchemie in der europäischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte written by Christoph Meinel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 356 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 : Christoph Meinel
Publisher : Hatier
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Die Alchemie in der europäischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte written by Christoph Meinel and published by Hatier. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004625704
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Alchemy Revisited written by Martels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Claudia Kren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136183213
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Alchemy in Europe written by Claudia Kren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching. Divided into categories to aid finding the right area of interest, this book forms a unique reference tool.
Author : H. Watanabe-O'Kelly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230514499
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Court Culture in Dresden written by H. Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first cultural history of Baroque Dresden, the capital of Saxony and the most important Protestant territory in the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly shows how the art patronage of the Electors fits into the intellectual climate of the age and investigates its political and religious context. Lutheran church music and architecture, the influence of Italy, the cabinet of curiosities and the culture of collecting, alchemy, mining and early technology, official image-making and court theatre are some of the wealth of colourful subjects dealt with during the period 1553 to 1733.
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 : Tara Nummedal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226608573
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire written by Tara Nummedal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe’s social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce. Reconstructing the workaday world of entrepreneurial alchemists, Tara Nummedal shows how allegations of fraud shaped their practices and prospects. These debates not only reveal enormously diverse understandings of what the “real” alchemy was and who could practice it; they also connect a set of little-known practitioners to the largest questions about commerce, trust, and intellectual authority in early modern Europe.
Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400883571
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Business of Alchemy written by Pamela H. Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth. Agrarian society regarded merchants with suspicion as the nonproductive exploiters of others' labor; however, territorial princes turned to commerce for revenue as the cost of maintaining the state increased. Placing Becher’s career in its social and intellectual context, Smith shows how he attempted to help his patrons assimilate commercial values into noble court culture and to understand the production of surplus capital as natural and legitimate. With emphasis on the practices of natural philosophy and extensive use of archival materials, Smith brings alive the moment of cultural transformation in which science and the modern state emerged.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136191712
Total Pages : 3312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 3312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others outlay portraits of people such as Giordano Bruno and John Dee.
Author : Barbara Obrist
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004625712
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Constantine of Pisa: The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy written by Barbara Obrist and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liber secretorum alchimie is an attempt to introduce alchemy into Aristotle's science: manipulating metals, astronomy, astrology, geography and even theology are combined in these lecture notes taken by a 13th century medical student to make a fascinating review of themes which were hotly debated in medieval Italian university circles.
Author : Olav Hammer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047431510
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Polemical Encounters written by Olav Hammer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history.
Author : Martina Zamparo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303105167X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale written by Martina Zamparo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mike A. Zuber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190073047
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Alchemy written by Mike A. Zuber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the continued existence of the spiritual alchemy of rebirth in heterodox and specifically Boehmist circles from around 1600 to the early twentieth century. The basic claim of continuity from Boehme to Atwood argued here is not new. A particularly apt expression may be found in F. Sherwood Taylor's The Alchemists of 1949, in which the founding editor of Ambix notes 'the existence of a school of mystical alchemists whose purpose was self-regeneration.' With Boehme as an important early exponent, this 'tendency culminated in 1850' with Atwood's Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery. Taylor's statement, it turns out, could hardly have been more accurate yet has so far lacked the support of a comprehensive presentation. This led Principe and Newman to describe such claims of continuity regarding spiritual alchemy as mere 'conjecture' without 'clear historical evidence.' This book marshals that hitherto elusive evidence, much of it found in obscure manuscript sources, and thus documents the continuity of spiritual alchemy that links the early-modern to the modern era"--
Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226577058
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Alchemy Tried in the Fire written by William R. Newman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Constantino de Pisa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004092884
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy written by Constantino de Pisa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Liber secretorum alchimie" is an attempt to introduce alchemy into Aristotle's science: manipulating metals, astronomy, astrology, geography and even theology are combined in these lecture notes taken by a 13th century medical student to make a fascinating review of themes which were hotly debated in medieval Italian university circles.
Author : Christopher McIntosh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004246789
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason written by Christopher McIntosh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century German Rosicrucian revival and, in particular, of the Gold und Rosenkreuz (Golden and Rosy Cross) order. It examines the order's relationship to the Enlightenment and its influence on the cultural, political and religious life of its age.
