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Author : Stanton J. Linden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796620
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (966 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy Reader written by Stanton J. Linden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Adiramled
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497962989
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Art of Alchemy written by Adiramled and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
Author : Steven Broecke, vanden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900445361X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Influence written by Steven Broecke, vanden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a case study of astrology's changing status as an academic discipline in the sixteenth century. It provides fascinating new insights in the practice of Renaissance astrology, its social position, and its profound impact on the changes in early modern European science.
Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262140751
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Nature written by William R. Newman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
Author : J. V. Field
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521627542
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Renaissance and Revolution written by J. V. Field and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems associated with the Scientific Revolution.
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 : Paul Kleber Monod
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300123582
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Solomon's Secret Arts written by Paul Kleber Monod and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThis illuminating book reveals the surprising extent to which great and lesser knownthinkers of the Age of Enlightenment embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult./div/div
Author : Patrick Curry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907767302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Prophecy and Power written by Patrick Curry and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the history of astrology in early modern England. Patrick Curry demonstrates that astrology was a vital part of English cultural life, surviving despite powerful opposition.
Author : Lawrence Principe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186286
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Aspiring Adept written by Lawrence Principe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy. Boyle has traditionally been considered, along with Newton, a founder of modern science because of his mechanical philosophy and his experimentation with the air-pump and other early scientific apparatus. However, Lawrence Principe shows that his alchemical quest--hidden first by Boyle's own codes and secrecy, and later suppressed or ignored--positions him more accurately in the intellectual and cultural crossroads of the seventeenth century. Principe radically reinterprets Boyle's most famous work, The Sceptical Chymist, to show that it criticizes not alchemists, as has been thought, but "unphilosophical" pharmacists and textbook writers. He then shows Boyle's unambiguous enthusiasm for alchemy in his "lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals, now reconstructed from scattered fragments and presented here in full for the first time. Intriguingly, Boyle believed that the goal of his quest, the Philosopher's Stone, could not only transmute base metals into gold, but could also attract angels. Alchemy could thus act both as a source of knowledge and as a defense against the growing tide of atheism that tormented him. In seeking to integrate the seemingly contradictory facets of Boyle's work, Principe also illuminates how alchemy and other "unscientific" pursuits had a far greater impact on early modern science than has previously been thought.
Author : Stephen Pumfrey
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719043222
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe written by Stephen Pumfrey and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623881
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Magic: A Very Short Introduction written by Owen Davies and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but loses its sense altogether. For this reason, many people often shy away from providing a detailed definition, assuming it is generally understood as the human control of supernatural forces. 'Magic' continues to pervade the popular imagination and idiom. People feel comfortable with its contemporary multiple meanings, unaware of the controversy, conflict, and debate its definition has caused over two and a half millennia. In common usage today 'magic' is uttered in reference to the supernatural, superstition, illusion, trickery, religious miracles, fantasies, and as a simple superlative. The literary confection known as 'magical realism' has considerable appeal and many modern scientists have ironically incorporated the word into their vocabulary, with their 'magic acid', 'magic bullets' and 'magic angles'. Since the so-called European Enlightenment magic has often been seen as a marker of primitivism, of a benighted earlier stage of human development. Yet across the modern globalized world hundreds of millions continue to resort to magic - and also to fear it. Magic provides explanations and remedies for those living in extreme poverty and without access to alternatives. In the industrial West, with its state welfare systems, religious fundamentalists decry the continued moral threat posed by magic. Under the guise of neo-Paganism, its practice has become a religion in itself. Magic continues to be a truly global issue. This Very Short Introduction does not attempt to provide a concluding definition of magic: it is beyond simple definition. Instead it explores the many ways in which magic, as an idea and a practice, has been understood and employed over the millennia. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Mary Anne Atwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Suggestive Inquiry Into the Hermetic Mystery written by Mary Anne Atwood and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Sprat
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498089647
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The History of the Royal Society written by Thomas Sprat and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1667 Edition.
Author : Thomas Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of Thomas Vaughan, Mystic and Alchemist written by Thomas Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michał Sędziwój
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A New Light of Alchymie written by Michał Sędziwój and published by . This book was released on 1650 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. Newman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226577031
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Atoms and Alchemy written by William R. Newman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Tracing the alchemical roots of Robert Boyle’s famous mechanical philosophy, Newman shows that alchemy contributed to the mechanization of nature, a movement that lay at the very heart of scientific discovery. Boyle and his predecessors—figures like the mysterious medieval Geber or the Lutheran professor Daniel Sennert—provided convincing experimental proof that matter is made up of enduring particles at the microlevel. At the same time, Newman argues that alchemists created the operational criterion of an “atomic” element as the last point of analysis, thereby contributing a key feature to the development of later chemistry. Atomsand Alchemy thus provokes a refreshing debate about the origins of modern science and will be welcomed—and deliberated—by all who are interested in the development of scientific theory and practice.
Author : Theophrastus Paracelsus
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465517146
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers written by Theophrastus Paracelsus and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
