A History of Magic and Experimental Science

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
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science: & 4. Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

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

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The Transformations of Magic

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

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"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.

Modernism and Magic

Modernism and Magic
Title Modernism and Magic PDF eBook
Author Leigh Wilson
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 291
Release 2015-10-01
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 0748672338

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Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century

Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 1

Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 1
Title Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author Henryk Grossman
Publisher BRILL
Pages 706
Release 2018-11-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9004384758

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This collection includes texts by Henryk Grossman that are primarily concerned with economic theory: monographs, articles, essays, letters and manuscript material. Many have never been published in English before, some in any language. The first in four volumes of Grossman’s works, it provides the basis for a deeper understanding of Grossman’s contributions to Marxist economic theory and critique of bourgeois economics. Rick Kuhn’s introduction explains the contexts in which the texts were written and establishes their contemporary relevance.

The History of Medieval Europe

The History of Medieval Europe
Title The History of Medieval Europe PDF eBook
Author Lynn Thorndike
Publisher
Pages 752
Release 1917
Genre Europe
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The Experimental Fire

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

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A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. 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.