Alchemical Belief

Author : Bruce Janacek
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271078038

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Alchemical Belief by Bruce Janacek Pdf

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their national—and in some cases royalist—loyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England’s church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400863662

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The Jewish Alchemists by Raphael Patai Pdf

In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : John T. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429862144

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Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy by John T. Young Pdf

Published in 1998, this is a fundamental re-assessment of the world-view of the alchemists, natural philosophers and intelligencers of the mid 17th century. Based almost entirely upon the extensive and hitherto little-researched manuscript archive of Samuel Hartlib, it charts and contextualises the personal and intellectual history of Johann Moriaen (c.1592-1668), a Dutch-German alchemist and natural philosopher. Moriaen was closely acquainted with many of the leading thinkers and experimenters of his time, including René Descartes, J.A. Comenius, J.R. Glauber and J.S. Küffler. His detailed reports of relations with these figures and his response to their work provide a uniquely informed insight into the world of alchemy and natural philosophy. This study also illuminates the nature and mechanisms of intellectual and technological exchanges between Germany, The Netherlands and England.

Author : Holly Crawford Pickett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512825657

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The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England by Holly Crawford Pickett Pdf

In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical figures such as William Alabaster, Kenelm Digby, William Chillingworth, and Marc Antonio De Dominis, along with fictional ones, who changed their religious affiliations between Catholicism and Protestantism multiple times. Pickett argues that serial converts both reveal and helped revise early modern understandings of the self. Through investigation of the techniques that serial converts used to stage and justify their conversions, Pickett demonstrates the performative nature of the act of conversion itself, offering a counternarrative to the paradigm of sincere, private conversion that was on the rise in the tumultuous years following the Reformation. Drawing from archival investigation into the lives and works of serial converts and performance studies theory, this book shows how the genres and conventions associated with conversion shaped not only forms of communication but also the very experience of conversion. By juxtaposing plays about serial conversion—by Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare—with spiritual autobiographies, Pickett highlights the shared task of convert and playwright: performing conversion for an audience. Serial converts served as uncomfortable reminders to their contemporaries that religious identity is always unverifiable. The first study to explore serial conversion as a discrete phenomenon in this era, The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England challenges confessional divisions within much early modern historiography by analyzing the surprising convergence of Protestant and Catholic in the figure of the serial convert. It also reveals a neglected strain of religious discourse in early modern England that valued mutability and flexibility even in the midst of hardening and increasingly narrow understandings of conversion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038818285

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Nature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11035046

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Nature London by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce T. Moran
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789141764

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Paracelsus by Bruce T. Moran Pdf

Throughout his controversial life, the alchemist, physician, and social-religious radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He read ancient texts and then burned “the best” of them. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but he also believed devoutly in a female deity. He traveled constantly, learning and teaching a new form of medicine based on the experience of miners, bathers, alchemists, midwives, and barber-surgeons. He argued for changes in the way the body was understood, how disease was defined, and how treatments were created, but he was also moved by mystical speculations, an alchemical view of nature, and an intriguing concept of creation. Bringing to light the ideas, diverse works, and major texts of this important Renaissance figure, Bruce T. Moran tells the story of how alchemy refashioned medical practice, showing how Paracelsus’s tenacity and endurance changed the medical world for the better and brought new perspectives to the study of nature.

Author : Bruce T. Moran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038784661

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The Alchemical World of the German Court by Bruce T. Moran Pdf

Author : Margaret D. Garber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : UCSD:31822009313453

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Alchemical Diplomacy by Margaret D. Garber Pdf

Author : H. Stanley Redgrove,H Stanley Redgrove B Sc
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523429291

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Alchemy by H. Stanley Redgrove,H Stanley Redgrove B Sc Pdf

The theory of the origin of Alchemy put forward in Chapter I has led to considerable discussion; but whilst this theory has met with general acceptance, some of its earlier critics took it as implying far more than is actually the case. As a result of further research my conviction of its truth has become more fully confirmed, and in my recent work entitled Bygone Beliefs, under the title of "The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone," I have found it possible to adduce further evidence in this connection. At the same time, whilst I became increasingly convinced that the main alchemistic hypotheses were drawn from the domain of mystical theology and applied to physics and chemistry by way of analogy, it also became evident to me that the crude physiology of bygone ages and remnants of the old phallic faith formed a further and subsidiary source of alchemistic theory. I have barely, if at all, touched on this matter in the present work; the reader who is interested will find it dealt with in some detail in "The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine" in my Bygone Beliefs.

Author : H. Stanley Redgrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 171958351X

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Alchemy: Ancient and Modern by H. Stanley Redgrove Pdf

The theory of the origin of Alchemy put forward in Chapter I has led to considerable discussion; but whilst this theory has met with general acceptance, some of its earlier critics took it as implying far more than is actually the case. As a result of further research my conviction of its truth has become more fully confirmed, and in my recent work entitled Bygone Beliefs (Rider, 1920), under the title of "The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone," I have found it possible to adduce further evidence in this connection. At the same time, whilst I became increasingly convinced that the main alchemistic hypotheses were drawn from the domain of mystical theology and applied to physics and chemistry by way of analogy, it also became evident to me that the crude physiology of bygone ages and remnants of the old phallic faith formed a further and subsidiary source of alchemistic theory. I have barely, if at all, touched on this matter in the present work; the reader who is interested will find it dealt with in some detail in "The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine" in my Bygone Beliefs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : UIUC:30112063820614

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The Journal of the Alchemical Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : UOM:39015018892656

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Alchemical Death and Resurrection by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs Pdf

Author : Laurinda S. Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017058101

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Alchemical Imagery in Bosch's Garden of Delights by Laurinda S. Dixon Pdf

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198746836

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The Alchemist in Literature by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

This study traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in Dante down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spiritual transformation of the alchemist himself). As scholarly interest in alchemy intensified, writers were attracted to the figure of the alchemist and his quest for power. The figure of the alchemist in literature provides a seismograph for major shifts in intellectual and cultural history.