A Pocket Essential Short History Of Alchemy And Alchemists

Author : Sean Martin
Publisher : Oldacastle Books
ISBN 13 : 1842435388
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy & Alchemists written by Sean Martin and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy has traditionally been viewed as 'the history of an error', an example of medieval gullibility and greed, in which alchemists tried to turn lead into gold, create fabulous wealth and find the elixir of life. But alchemy has also been described as 'the mightiest secret that a man can possess', and it obsessed the likes of Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and many of the founders of modern science. This book explores the history of the so-called Royal Art, from its mysterious beginnings in Egypt and China, through the Hellenistic world and the early years of Islam and into mediaeval Europe. Some of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, figures such as Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas were drawn to alchemy, and legendary alchemists such as Nicholas Flamel were thought to have actually succeeded in finding The Philosopher's Stone. During the Renaissance, Paracelsus and his followers helped revolutionize medicine, and during the seventeenth century, alchemy played a major role in paving the way for modern science. During the twentieth century, it became a focus of interest for the psychologist Carl Jung and his followers, who believed that the alchemists had discovered the unconscious. In this fully revised edition, Sean Martin has expanded the sections on Chinese and Indian alchemy and has added new material on the relationship between alchemy and early modern science, while also making a fresh assessment of this most enduringly mysterious and fascinating of subjects, to which all others have been described as 'child's play'.

Author : C. J. S. Thompson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486167828
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy and Alchemists written by C. J. S. Thompson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched study traces history of alchemy, chronicling search for philosopher's stone and elixir of life, alchemist's laboratory and apparatus, symbols and secret alphabets, famous practitioners, plus contributions to field of chemistry. 77 black-and-white illustrations, 31 plates.

Author : Lawrence Principe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226682951
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secrets of Alchemy written by Lawrence Principe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been dismissed as the realm of myth and magic, or fraud and pseudoscience. And while its themes and ideas persist in some expected and unexpected places, from the Philosopher's (or Sorcerer's) Stone of Harry Potter to the self-help mantra of transformation, there has not been a serious, accessible, and up-to-date look at the complete history and influence of alchemy until now.

Author : Sean Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433702426
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy & Alchemists written by Sean Martin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of the so-called Royal Art, from its mysterious beginnings in Egypt and China, through the Hellenistic world and the early years of Islam and into mediaeval Europe. Some of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, figures such as Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas were drawn to alchemy, and legendary alchemists such as Nicholas Flamel were thought to have actually succeeded in finding The Philosopher's Stone. During the Renaissance, Paracelsus and his followers helped revolutionise medicine, and during the seventeenth century, alchemy played a major ro.

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006420
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Alchemists written by Raphael Patai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental work, Raphael Patai, acclaimed author of Hebrew Myths (with Robert Graves) and The Hebrew Goddess, opens up an entirely new field in cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Among the myriad subjects treated in the book is the close relationship between alchemy and medicine as practiced by Jewish adepts. Other Jewish alchemists combined alchemy with magic or with kabbalistic practices. Still others became, through their alchemical efforts, the forerunners of modern chemistry. The culmination of many years of research, The Jewish Alchemists shows that alchemy was much more than the attempt at transmuting base metals into gold: it was a powerful worldview that assumed an essential unity underlying all of nature - and the power of humans to intervene, with God's help, in nature's course.

Author : Charles John Samuel Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy and Alchemists written by Charles John Samuel Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric John Holmyard
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486262987
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy written by Eric John Holmyard and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study by noted authority covers 2,000 years of alchemical history: religious, mystical overtones; apparatus; signs, symbols, and secret terms; advent of scientific method, much more. Illustrated.

Author : Gary Edson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490888
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and Alchemy through the Ages written by Gary Edson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of the various theories and practices of transformation, with attention to the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism and Yoga. The connection between early mystical pursuits and the development of alchemy from ancient China, India, and Egypt through Moorish Spain and into Latin Europe are illuminated, along with the activities of early alchemists. The book, which is heavily illustrated, describes the beliefs, experiments, and secret messages that drew the believers and dreamers of the world together in search of wealth and immortality.

Author : M. M. Pattison Muir
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
ISBN 13 : 3985511411
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Alchemy written by M. M. Pattison Muir and published by FilRougeViceversa. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The system which began to be called alchemy in the 6th and 7th centuries of our era had no special name before that time, but was known as the sacred art, the divine science, the occult science, the art of Hermes.A commentator on Aristotle, writing in the 4th century A.D., calls certain instruments used for fusion and calcination "chuika organa," that is, instruments for melting and pouring. Hence, probably, came the adjective chyic or chymic, and, at a somewhat later time, the word chemia as the name of that art which deals with calcinations, fusions, meltings, and the like. The writer of a treatise on astrology, in the 5th century, speaking of the influences of the stars on the dispositions of man, says: "If a man is born under Mercury he will give himself to astronomy; if Mars, he will follow the profession of arms; if Saturn, he will devote himself to the science of alchemy (Scientia alchemiae)." The word alchemia which appears in this treatise, was formed by prefixing the Arabic al (meaning the) to chemia, a word, as we have seen, of Greek origin.

Author : Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir
Publisher : Mundus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.IB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry written by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir and published by Mundus Publishing. This book was released on 1902 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: