Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Author:   P. Rattansi ,  Antonio Clericuzio
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Volume:   140
ISBN:  

9789401043335


Pages:   215
Publication Date:   28 October 2012
Format:   Paperback
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"The 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and alchemy in the Lullian treatises were examined in the opening paper by Michela Pereira, based on researches on unpublished manuscript sources in the period between the 14th and 17th centuries.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."

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Author:   P. Rattansi ,  Antonio Clericuzio
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Volume:   140
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.384kg
ISBN:  

9789401043335


ISBN 10:   9401043337
Pages:   215
Publication Date:   28 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Medicina in the Alchemical Writings Attributed to Raimond Lull (14th–17th Centuries).- 2. The Visible and the Invisible. From Alchemy to Paracelsus.- 3. The Internal Laboratory. The Chemical Reinterpretation of Medical Spirits in England (1650–1680).- 4. Creation in the Thought of J. B. van Helmont and Robert Fludd.- 5. Alchemy, Prophecy, and the Rosicrucians: Raphael Eglinus and Mystical Currents of the Early Seventeenth Century.- 6. “Author, Cui Nomen Hermes Malavici”. New Light on the Biobibliography of Michael Maier (1569–1622).- 7. Alchemy and the Virtues of Stones in Muscovy.- 8. The Corpuscular Transmutational Theory of Eirenaeus Philalethes.- 9. Chemistry Teaching at Oxford and Cambridge, circa 1700.- Name Index.

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