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Alchemical Belief : Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England / Bruce Janacek.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Magic in HistoryPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 6 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271078038
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.5/13094209031
LOC classification:
  • BR757.J36 2011
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Thomas Tymme and Natural Philosophy: Schism and Alchemical Unity in the Book of Nature -- 2 Robert Fludd, Natural Theology, and the Alchemical Debate of 1623 -- 3 Francis Bacon, Alchemy, and the Great Redemption -- 4 Catholic Natural Philosophy: Alchemy and the Revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby -- 5 Elias Ashmole: The Collection and Culmination of Alchemical Thought -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Thomas Tymme and Natural Philosophy: Schism and Alchemical Unity in the Book of Nature -- 2 Robert Fludd, Natural Theology, and the Alchemical Debate of 1623 -- 3 Francis Bacon, Alchemy, and the Great Redemption -- 4 Catholic Natural Philosophy: Alchemy and the Revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby -- 5 Elias Ashmole: The Collection and Culmination of Alchemical Thought -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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