The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton - Tapa blanda

Linden, Stanton J.

 
9780521796620: The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton
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ISBN 10: 0521796628 ISBN 13: 9780521796620
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Sinopsis

The Alchemy Reader is a collection of primary source readings on alchemy and hermeticism, which offers readers an informed introduction and background to a complex field through the works of important ancient, medieval and early modern alchemical authors. Including selections from the legendary Hermes Trimegistus to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, the book illustrates basic definitions, conceptions, and varied interests and emphases; and it also illustrates the highly interdisciplinary character of alchemical thought and its links with science and medicine, philosophical and religious currents, the visual arts and iconography and, especially, literary discourse. Like the notable anthologies of alchemical writings published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it seeks to counter the problem of an acute lack of reliable primary texts and to provide a convenient and accessible point of entry to the field.

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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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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2003
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0521796628
ISBN 13 
9780521796620
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