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Author |
: Michael Maiers |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2015-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1781071853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781781071854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Atalanta Fugiens by : Michael Maiers
One of the finest alchemical emblem books and unique in its own right. Michael Maier's work is richly illustrated with original prints by M. Merian; each of the 50 emblems presented consists of a motto, print, epigram, and a three-part musical setting of the epigram, followed by an exposition of its meaning.
Author |
: Tara E. Nummedal |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813945585 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813945583 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Furnace and fugue by : Tara E. Nummedal
A re-rendering Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens as an enhanced online publication, this text allows contemporary readers to hear, see, manipulate, and investigate Atalanta fugiens in ways that Maier perhaps imagined but that were impossible to fully realize before now. An interactive, layered digital edition provides accessibility and flexibility, presenting all the elements of the original book along with significant enhancements that allow for deep engagement by specialists and nonspecialists alike.--Publisher's note
Author |
: Tara Nummedal |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2008-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226608570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226608573 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire by : Tara Nummedal
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe’s social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce. Reconstructing the workaday world of entrepreneurial alchemists, Tara Nummedal shows how allegations of fraud shaped their practices and prospects. These debates not only reveal enormously diverse understandings of what the “real” alchemy was and who could practice it; they also connect a set of little-known practitioners to the largest questions about commerce, trust, and intellectual authority in early modern Europe.
Author |
: Tara Nummedal |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2019-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812250893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812250893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood by : Tara Nummedal
In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a critical role in preparing for the Last Days. Boldly envisioning herself as a Protestant Virgin Mary, Anna proposed that the lion's blood, paired with her own body, could even generate life, repopulating and redeeming the corrupt world in its final moments. In Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood, Tara Nummedal reconstructs the extraordinary career and historical afterlife of alchemist, courtier, and prophet Anna Zieglerin. She situates Anna's story within the wider frameworks of Reformation Germany's religious, political, and military battles; the rising influence of alchemy; the role of apocalyptic eschatology; and the position of women within these contexts. Together with her husband, the jester Heinrich Schombach, and their companion and fellow alchemist Philipp Sommering, Anna promised her patrons at the court of Wolfenbüttel spiritual salvation and material profit. But her compelling vision brought with it another, darker possibility: rather than granting her patrons wealth or redemption, Anna's alchemical gifts might instead lead to war, disgrace, and destruction. By 1575, three years after Anna's arrival at court, her enemies had succeeded in turning her from holy alchemist into poisoner and sorceress, culminating in Anna's arrest, torture, and public execution. In her own life, Anna was a master of self-fashioning; in the centuries since her death, her story has been continually refashioned, making her a fitting emblem for each new age. Interweaving the history of science, gender, religion, and politics, Nummedal recounts how one resourceful woman's alchemical schemes touched some of the most consequential matters in Reformation Germany.
Author |
: Alisha Rankin |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 022674485X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226744858 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poison Trials by : Alisha Rankin
In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story. At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with “experimental thinking” long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend. The Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.
Author |
: Joanna Ruocco |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 2012-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781573661652 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1573661651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith by : Joanna Ruocco
"In 'Another Governess' a woman in a decaying manor tries to piece together her own story. In 'The Least Blacksmith' a boy cannot help but fail his older brother as they struggle to run their dead father's forge"--P. [4] of cover.
Author |
: John Milton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 1711 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N11678720 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paradise Lost by : John Milton
Author |
: Martin Farquhar Tupper |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 1842 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600059489 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proverbial Philosophy by : Martin Farquhar Tupper
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1947200607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781947200609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine, Volume 2 Issue 1 by :
Author |
: Lewis Thomas |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 1978-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101667057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101667052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lives of a Cell by : Lewis Thomas
Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."