A History of Magic and Experimental Science
Title | A History of Magic and Experimental Science PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Thorndike |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A History of Magic and Experimental Science: & 4. Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Title | A History of Magic and Experimental Science: & 4. Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Thorndike |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 858 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Magic |
ISBN | 9780231087964 |
The Transformations of Magic
Title | The Transformations of Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Klaassen |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0271056266 |
"Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late Medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not"--Provided by publisher.
Pseudo-Paracelsus
Title | Pseudo-Paracelsus PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2021-11-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004503382 |
With its innovative studies and its extensive catalogue of texts erroneously attributed to Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), this volume explores largely overlooked aspects of the Paracelsian movement in Renaissance and early modern medicine, science, natural philosophy, theology and religion.
The Experimental Fire
Title | The Experimental Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer M. Rampling |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2020-12-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022671084X |
“Presents the largely uncharted history of English alchemy from its medieval roots until the end of the seventeenth century . . . an astounding eye for detail.” —Annals of Science In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring ancient books for evidence of a lost alchemical heritage and seeking to translate their secret language and obscure imagery into replicable, practical effects. Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science. “An engaging piece of scholarly work . . . it humanizes the alchemist, showing him or her to be a historical personage caught up in the circumstances of the era and seeking to survive the upheavals and challenges of historical reality . . . bound to make an important contribution to the history of science, social history, history of scholarship, and the history of the book.” —Early Science and Medicine
A History of Magic
Title | A History of Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cavendish |
Publisher | |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Magic |
ISBN | 9780722122143 |
Curiosity
Title | Curiosity PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Ball |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2013-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022604579X |
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.