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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Modern Studies ; 15Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271091259
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 540.9/031 23
LOC classification:
  • QD14
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 intersection among alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian medical philosophy. In exploring the varieties of natural knowledge in the early modern era, the authors pay tribute to the work of Allen Debus, whose own endeavors cleared the way for scholars to examine subjects that were once snubbed as suitable only to the refuse heap of the history of science.
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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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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 intersection among alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian medical philosophy. In exploring the varieties of natural knowledge in the early modern era, the authors pay tribute to the work of Allen Debus, whose own endeavors cleared the way for scholars to examine subjects that were once snubbed as suitable only to the refuse heap of the history of science.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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