Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature and the arts.
Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature and the arts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stanton J. Linden is Professor Emeritus of English, Washington State University. His publications include Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration (1996), Emblems and Alchemy (co-editor, 1998), and a critical edition of George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (2001).
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Introduction Part I. Ancient Texts: 1. Hermes Trismegistus: The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina) 2. Plato: from the Timaeus 3. Aristotle: from the Meteorology 4. Pseudo-Democritus: from the Treatise of Democritus on Things Natural and Mystical 5. Anonymous: Dialogue of Cleopatra and the Philosophers 6. Anonymous: from Leiden Papyrus X and the Stockholm Papyrus 7. Zosimos of Panopolis: Of Virtue, Lesson 1-3 8. Stephanos of Alexandria: from The Great and Sacred Art of the Making of Gold 9. Anonymous: The Poem of the Philosopher Theophrastos upon the Sacred Art Part II. Islamic and Medieval Texts: 10. Khalid ibn Yazid: from Secreta Alchymiae 11. Pseudo-Geber: from Of the Investigation or Search of Perfection Of the Sum of Perfection and His Book of Furnaces 12. Avicenna: De Congelatione et Conglutinatione Lapidum 13. Albertus Magnus: from the Libellus de Alchimia 14. Roger Bacon: from the Radix Mundi 15. Nicolas Flamel: from His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures 16. Bernard, Earl of Trevisan: A Treatise of the Philosophers Stone 17. George Ripley: The Epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward the 4 Part III. Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Texts: 18. Paracelsus: from Of the Nature of Things and Paracelsus His Aurora 19. Francis Anthony: Aurum-Potabile: or the Receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie 20. Michael Sendivogius: from A New Light of Alchymie and A Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature 21. Robert Fludd: from Mosaicall Philosophy 22. Gabriel Plattes: A Caveat for Alchymists 23. John French: preface to The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trimegistus in XVII Books 24. George Starkey/Eirenaeus Philalethes: The Admirable Efficacy, and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl from An Exposition Upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV 25. Elias Ashmole: Prolegomena to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 26. Robert Boyle: from An Historical Account of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chymical Narrative 27. Isaac Newton: The Key (Keynes MS 18) The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes MS 28), King's College, Cambridge Glossary Bibliography Index.
Introduction Part I. Ancient Texts: 1. Hermes Trismegistus: The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina) 2. Plato: from the Timaeus 3. Aristotle: from the Meteorology 4. Pseudo-Democritus: from the Treatise of Democritus on Things Natural and Mystical 5. Anonymous: Dialogue of Cleopatra and the Philosophers 6. Anonymous: from Leiden Papyrus X and the Stockholm Papyrus 7. Zosimos of Panopolis: Of Virtue, Lesson 1-3 8. Stephanos of Alexandria: from The Great and Sacred Art of the Making of Gold 9. Anonymous: The Poem of the Philosopher Theophrastos upon the Sacred Art Part II. Islamic and Medieval Texts: 10. Khalid ibn Yazid: from Secreta Alchymiae 11. Pseudo-Geber: from Of the Investigation or Search of Perfection Of the Sum of Perfection and His Book of Furnaces 12. Avicenna: De Congelatione et Conglutinatione Lapidum 13. Albertus Magnus: from the Libellus de Alchimia 14. Roger Bacon: from the Radix Mundi 15. Nicolas Flamel: from His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures 16. Bernard, Earl of Trevisan: A Treatise of the Philosophers Stone 17. George Ripley: The Epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward the 4 Part III. Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Texts: 18. Paracelsus: from Of the Nature of Things and Paracelsus His Aurora 19. Francis Anthony: Aurum-Potabile: or the Receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie 20. Michael Sendivogius: from A New Light of Alchymie and A Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature 21. Robert Fludd: from Mosaicall Philosophy 22. Gabriel Plattes: A Caveat for Alchymists 23. John French: preface to The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trimegistus in XVII Books 24. George Starkey/Eirenaeus Philalethes: The Admirable Efficacy, and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl from An Exposition Upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV 25. Elias Ashmole: Prolegomena to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 26. Robert Boyle: from An Historical Account of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chymical Narrative 27. Isaac Newton: The Key (Keynes MS 18) The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes MS 28), King's College, Cambridge Glossary Bibliography Index.
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