Bridging Traditions : : Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era /

Bridging Traditions : : Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era / / ed. by Bruce T. Moran, Karen Hunger Parshall, Michael T. Walton.

Bridging Traditions explores the connections between apparently different zones of comprehension and experience-magic and experiment, alchemy and mechanics, practical mathematics and geometrical mysticism, things earthy and heavenly, and especially science and medicine-by focusing on points of inter...

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MitwirkendeR:
Chang, Ku-ming Kevin,
Clulee, Nicholas H.,
Daniel, Dane T.,
Garber, Margaret D.,
Hunger Parshall, Karen,
Moran, Bruce T.,
Rey Bueno, Mar,
Schott, Heinz,
Shackelford, Jole,
Timmermann, Anke,
Walton, Michael T.,
HerausgeberIn:
Moran, Bruce T.,
Parshall, Karen Hunger,
Walton, Michael T.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Early Modern Studies ; 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Crafting the Chemical Interpretation of Nature: The Work of Allen G. Debus
  • Part One: Curious Practices and Practices of Curiosity
  • Chapter 2: Johann Hayne and Paracelsian Praxis: Chemical Physiology as a Link between Semeiotics and Therapeutics
  • Chapter 3: Andreas Libavius and the Art of Chymia: Words, Works, Precepts, and Social Practices
  • Chapter 4: Chymical Curiosities and Trusted Testimonials in the Journal of the Leopoldina Academy of Curiosi
  • Chapter 5: Phlogiston and Chemical Principles: The Development and Formulation of Georg Ernst Stahl's Principle of Inflammability
  • Part Two: Regional Contexts and Communities of Texts
  • Chapter 6: "If they are not pages that cure, they are pages that teach how to cure": The Diffusion of Chemical Remedies in Early Modern Spain
  • Chapter 7: Prescriptions of Alchemy: Two Austrian Medical Doctors and Their Alchemical Manuscripts
  • Chapter 8: The Chemical Philosophy and Kabbalah: Pantheus, Khunrath, Croll, and the Treasures of the Oratory and the Laboratory
  • Part Three: Evaluations and Perceptions
  • Chapter 9: Paracelsus on the Sidereal Powers: Revisiting the Historiographical Debate between Walter Pagel and Kurt Goldammer
  • Chapter 10: John Dee at 400: Still an Enigma
  • Chapter 11: On the Imagery of Nature in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
  • Contributors
  • Index

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