The Alchemy of Light : : Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration / / Urszula Szulakowska.

This study concerns the late Renaissance metaphysics of light in its adoption to a Paracelsian alchemical context by John Dee, Heinrich Khunrath, Michael Maier and Robert Fludd. Their alchemical theosophy is contextualised within Protestant reformism of the 1590s to 1620s, specifically that of Valen...

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Superior document:Symbola et Emblemata ; 10
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Symbola et Emblemata ; 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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