Bridging traditions : alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian practices in the early modern era /
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 int...
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Kirksville, Missouri :
Truman State University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Early modern studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1 Crafting the Chemical Interpretation of Nature: The Work of Allen G. Debus / Karen Hunger Parshall
- pt. One Curious Practices and Practices of Curiosity
- ch. 2 Johann Hayne and Paracelsian Praxis: Chemical Physiology as a Link between Semeiotics and Therapeutics / Jole Shackelford
- ch. 3 Andreas Libavius and the Art of Chymia: Words, Works, Precepts, and Social Practices / Bruce T. Moran
- ch. 4 Chymical Curiosities and Trusted Testimonials in the Journal of the Leopoldina Academy of Curiosi / Margaret D. Garber
- ch. 5 Phlogiston and Chemical Principles: The Development and Formulation of Georg Ernst Stahl's Principle of Inflammability / Ku-Ming (Kevin) Chang
- pt. Two Regional Contexts and Communities of Texts
- ch. 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 / Mar Rey Bueno.
- Ch. 7 Prescriptions of Alchemy: Two Austrian Medical Doctors and Their Alchemical Manuscripts / Anke Timmermann
- ch. 8 The Chemical Philosophy and Kabbalah: Pantheus, Khunrath, Croll, and the Treasures of the Oratory and the Laboratory / Michael T. Walton
- pt. Three Evaluations and Perceptions
- ch. 9 Paracelsus on the Sidereal Powers: Revisiting the Historiographical Debate between Walter Pagel and Kurt Goldammer / Dane T. Daniel
- ch. 10 John Dee at 400: Still an Enigma / Nicholas H. Clulee
- ch. 11 On the Imagery of Nature in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods / Heinz Schott.
