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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Parshall, Karen Hunger, 1955-, Walton, Michael Thomson, 1945-, Moran, Bruce T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Early modern studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.