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Author: Walter Pagel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-27
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521526555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intellectual biography of Van Helmont (1579-1644), showing a scholarly appreciation of his creative insights.
Author: William R. Newman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0226577023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Newman and Lawrence Principe reveal the hitherto hidden laboratory experiments of a famous alchemist and argue that many of the principles and practices characteristic of modern chemistry derive from alchemy.
Author: Michael Thomson Walton
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780404623456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Johann Heinrich Cohausen
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Pascal Richet
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-02-05
Total Pages: 1568
ISBN-13: 1118799399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Encyclopedia begins with an introduction summarizing itsscope and content. Glassmaking; Structure of Glass, GlassPhysics,Transport Properties, Chemistry of Glass, Glass and Light,Inorganic Glass Families, Organic Glasses, Glass and theEnvironment, Historical and Economical Aspect of Glassmaking,History of Glass, Glass and Art, and outlinepossible newdevelopments and uses as presented by the best known people in thefield (C.A. Angell, for example). Sections and chapters arearranged in a logical order to ensure overall consistency and avoiduseless repetitions. All sections are introduced by a briefintroduction and attractive illustration. Newly investigatedtopics will be addresses, with the goal of ensuring that thisEncyclopedia remains a reference work for years to come.
Author: P. Rattansi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9401107785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on "Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989. The Colloquium focused on a number of selected themes during a closely defined chronological interval: on the relation of alchemy and chemistry to medicine, philosophy, religion, and to the corpuscular philosophy, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The relations between Medicina and alchemy in the Lullian treatises were examined in the opening paper by Michela Pereira, based on researches on unpublished manuscript sources in the period between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is several decades since the researches of R.F. Multhauf gave a prominent role to Johannes de Rupescissa in linking medicine and alchemy through the concept of a quinta essentia. Michela Pereira explores the significance of the Lullian tradition in this development and draws attention to the fact that the early Paracelsians had themselves recognized a family resemblance between the works of Paracelsus and Roger Bacon's scientia experimentalis and, indeed, a continuity with the Lullian tradition.
Author: D.R. Kelley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9401132380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9004503382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its innovative studies and its extensive catalogue of texts erroneously attributed to Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), this volume explores largely overlooked aspects of the Paracelsian movement in Renaissance and early modern medicine, science, natural philosophy, theology and religion.
Author: Brian P. Copenhaver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-09
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 1316299481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.
