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ISBN 13 : 9788086890852
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Download or read book Alchemy and Rudolf II written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802715516
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Magic Circle of Rudolf II written by Peter Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, heir to the Habsburg empire, focuses on the thirty-six-year reign and the extraordinary mathematicians, alchemists, artists, astronomers, and philosophers who made up his court--including Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Francis Bacon, and others--and made Prague the artistic and scientific center of Europe. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718574
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Magic Circle of Rudolf II written by Peter Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolf II-Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the Romans-is one of history's great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign (1576-1612) roughly mirrored that of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and while her famous court is widely recognized as a sixteenth century Who's Who, Rudolf 's collection of mathematicians, alchemists, artists, philosophers and astronomers-among them the greatest and most subversive minds of the time-was no less prestigious and perhaps even more influential. Driven to understand the deepest secrets of nature and the riddle of existence, Rudolf invited to his court an endless stream of genius-Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, German mathematician Johannes Kepler, English magus John Dee, Francis Bacon, and mannerist painter Giuseppe Archimboldo among many others. Prague became the artistic and scientific center of the known world-an island of intellectual tolerance between Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam. Combining the wonders and architectural beauty of sixteenth century Prague with the larger than-life characters of Rudolf 's court, Peter Marshall provides an exciting new perspective on the pivotal moment of transition between medieval and modern, when the foundation was laid for the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
Author : Eliška Fučíková
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500237373
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rudolf II and Prague written by Eliška Fučíková and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 400 years after the death of Rudolph II, the city of Prague is hosting during the summer of 1997 a celebration of art, music, and science in honor of the enlightened and eccentric Hapsburg ruler. Prepared with the Prague Castle Administration, this official and comprehensive catalog contains significant artistic achievements of both court and city. 1500 illus. 250 in color.
Author : Hans Holzer
Publisher : Crossroad Press
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Alchemist written by Hans Holzer and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Holzer, the most prolific writer about the occult in the world, here tells what happened when he investigated the mysterious secret activities of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf von Habsburg, in the very city where Rudolf ruled. There Holzer first heard about Father Damiano, Emperor Rudolf's secret confidant, and the diary he kept. Holzer visited Father Damiano's grave and noticed something very strange about the tombstone … The diary revealed the Emperor had surrounded himself with astrologers and alchemists, set up smelting kitchens for turning lead into gold, and used erotic means to summon supernatural powers. Here, the whole story is revealed for the first time.
Author : Henry Carrington Bolton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II written by Henry Carrington Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396770
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Making Marvels written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
Author : Hereward Tilton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110896575
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Quest for the Phoenix written by Hereward Tilton and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents with this intellectual biography of the Lutheran alchemist Count Michael Maier an academic study of western esotericism in general and to the study of alchemy and rosicrucianism in particular. The author charts the development of Maier's Hermetic worldview in the context of his service at the courts of Emperor Rudolf II and Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. The problem of the nature of early Rosicrucianism is addressed in detail with reference to Maier's role in the promotion of this "serious jest" in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The work is set in the context of ongoing debates concerning the nature of early modern alchemy and its role in the history of Western esotericism.
Author : Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : IAP
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Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sensuous Unity of Art and Science written by Jaan Valsiner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to locate the birth pangs of psychology—the study of the psyche—in in the Renaissance unity of art and science. The historical period 1583-1611 in Prague was a particularly productive for all Europe in its intellectual advancements in art and science. It was facilitated by the special personality of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II who during his reign made Prague the capital of the Empire where the major artists, scientists, architects and alchemists came together in the service of the Emperor and formed a unique context of interdisciplinary synthesis of ideas that enhanced European philosophies, sciences, and arts in the following centuries. While the history of art in and astronomy in the Rudolfine era has been amply covered, the impacts of the intellectual atmosphere of the era on psychology, philosophy, social ideologies, and aesthetics has remained scarcely investigated. The volume includes analyses of history of ideas in psychology, sociology and other social sciences that received the impetus of the political situation of Rudolfine Prague with religious tolerance and decline of the political power of the Holy Roman Empire.
Author : Peter H. Marshall
Publisher : Random House
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Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mercurial Emperor written by Peter H. Marshall and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters and mathematicians flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II - an emperor more interested in the great minds of his times than in the exercise of his immense power. Rarely leaving Prague Castle, he gathered around himself a galaxy of celebrated figures: among them the painter Arcimboldo, thee astronomer Tycho Brahe, the mathematician Johannes Kepler, the philosopher Giordano Bruno and the magus John Dee. Fascinated by the new Renaissance learning, Rudolf found it nearly impossible to make decisions of state. Like Faust, he was prepared to risk all in the pursuit of magical knowledge and the Philosopher's Stone which would turn base metals into gold and prolong life indefinitely. But he also faced threats: religious discord, the Ottoman Empire, his own deepening melancholy and an ambitious younger brother. As a result he lost his empire and nearly his sanity. But he enabled Prague to enjoy a golden age of peace and creativity before Europe was engulfed in the Thirty Years' War. Filled with angels and devils, high art and low cunning, talismans and stars, The Mercurial Emperor offers a captivating perspective on a pivotal moment in the history of Western civilisation. 'An admirable and fascinating book.' Alex Butterworth, Observer 'An entertaining description of life at the heart of a Europe stained by the clash of new and old ideas...an enjoyable description of an extraordinary epoch.' Greg Neale, BBC History Magazine
