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Author |
: Raphael Patai |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 634 |
Release |
: 2014-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400863662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140086366X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jewish Alchemists by : Raphael Patai
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 French |
Publisher |
: BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2021-01-01 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Distillation by : John French
With 42 woodcut illustrations. This is a detailed handbook of knowledge and practice at the time, said to be possibly the earliest definitive book on distillation, by John French, an English physician who lived in the 17th Century.
Author |
: Lawrence Principe |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226682952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226682951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Secrets of Alchemy by : Lawrence Principe
Alchemy, 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 |
: William R. Newman |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262140756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262140751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Secrets of Nature by : William R. Newman
A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
Author |
: Jacob Wamberg |
Publisher |
: Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8763502674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788763502672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art & Alchemy by : Jacob Wamberg
These richly illustrated articles cover the representation of alchemy in art from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. The authors, who are artists, curators and art historians from the US and Europe, address such topics as alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist and modernist art; Netherlandish 17th-century portrayals of alchemists; and alchemy as the forerunner of photography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author |
: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2012-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441132970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 144113297X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Chemical Choir by : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
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Author |
: Bruce Janacek |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2015-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271078021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271078022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alchemical Belief by : Bruce Janacek
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 |
: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 20 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:643947569 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alehemy in the Nineteenth Century by : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Author |
: Eleanor Dobson |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2022-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787358485 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787358488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Alchemy by : Eleanor Dobson
Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as ‘alchemical’. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science. Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing, counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to this day.
Author |
: Karen Pinkus |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2009-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804772877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804772878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alchemical Mercury by : Karen Pinkus
How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation of materials. Almost every culture and time has had some form of alchemy. This book looks at alchemy, not at any one particular instance along the historical timeline, not as a practice or theory, not as a mode of redemption, but as a theoretical problem, linked to real gold and real production in the world. What emerges as the least common denominator or "intensive property" of alchemy is ambivalence, the impossible and paradoxical coexistence of two incompatible elements. Alchemical Mercury moves from antiquity, through the golden age of alchemy in the Dutch seventeenth century, to conceptual art, to alternative fuels, stopping to think with writers such as Dante, Goethe, Hoffmann, the Grimm Brothers, George Eliot, and Marx. Eclectic and wide-ranging, this is the first study to consider alchemy in relation to literary and visual theory in a comprehensive way.