Secrets of Nature
Author: William R. Newman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780262140751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
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Author: William R. Newman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780262140751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
Author: Claudia Kren
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-25
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1136183205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1588396770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
Author: Meredith K. Ray
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0674504232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.
Author: Jennifer M. Rampling
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-12-11
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 022671084X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring ancient books for evidence of a lost alchemical heritage and seeking to translate their secret language and obscure imagery into replicable, practical effects. Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science.
Author: Sir George Sir George Ripley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781987523096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ancient Hidden Art of Alchemie, Containing the right and perfect means To make the Philosophers Stone Aurum Potabile, with other Excellent Experiments, Divided lnto Twelve Gates. Sir George Ripley (c. 1415-1490) was an English Augustinian canon, author, and alchemist.
Author: Lawrence Principe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0226682951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlchemy, 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: Bruce T. MORAN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0674041224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReacting to the perception that the break, early on in the scientific revolution, between alchemy and chemistry was clean and abrupt, Moran literately and engagingly recaps what was actually a slow process. Far from being the superstitious amalgam it is now considered, alchemy was genuine science before and during the scientific revolution. The distinctive alchemical procedure--distillation--became the fundamental method of analytical chemistry, and the alchemical goal of transmuting "base metals" into gold and silver led to the understanding of compounds and elements. What alchemy very gradually but finally lost in giving way to chemistry was its spiritual or religious aspect, the linkages it discerned between purely physical and psychological properties. Drawing saliently from the most influential alchemical and scientific texts of the medieval to modern epoch (especially the turbulent and eventful seventeenth century), Moran fashions a model short history of science volume
Author: Karen Hunger Parshall
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1612481353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBridging Traditions explores the connections between apparently different zones of comprehension and experience—magic and experiment, alchemy and mechanics, practical mathematics and geometrical mysticism, things earthy and heavenly, and especially science and medicine—by focusing on points of intersection among alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian medical philosophy. In exploring the varieties of natural knowledge in the early modern era, the authors pay tribute to the work of Allen Debus, whose own endeavors cleared the way for scholars to examine subjects that were once snubbed as suitable only to the refuse heap of the history of science.
Author: Pseudo-Geber
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 842
ISBN-13: 9789004094642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present work contains a critical edition, translation, and study of the "Summa perfectionis" of Pseudo-Geber, the most influential of the many texts of medieval alchemy. The study addresses such questions as the author's identity, his corpuscular theory of matter, the influence of the "Summa," and its own sources.