The Alchemy Reader
From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton
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- Editor: Stanton J. Linden, Washington State University
- Date Published: September 2003
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Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will provide the reader with a basic introduction to the field and its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature and the arts.
Read more- Includes a unique range of authors and works on the fascinating subject of alchemy, unavailable in any other book
- Makes important inter-cultural and cross-disciplinary emphases, reflecting a humanistic, cultural perspective
- Makes the subject understandable through substantial introductions, lightly modernised texts, illustrations, and a guide to further reading
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"... a new and valuable source of how these complicated ideas were originally expressed." Seattle Weekly
See more reviews"The ideas presented in Linden's introduction are thoughtfully represented by his slections of primary sources. The readings themsleves are each prefaced by biographical information and commentary on the authors and texts, and the extensive bibliography and reading lists offer direction for further research." Sixteenth Century Journal Aida Patient, University of Alberta
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- Date Published: September 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521796620
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 241 x 168 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Ancient Texts:
1. Hermes Trismegistus: The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina)
2. Plato: from the Timaeus
3. Aristotle: from the Meteorology
4. Pseudo-Democritus: from the Treatise of Democritus on Things Natural and Mystical
5. Anonymous: Dialogue of Cleopatra and the Philosophers
6. Anonymous: from Leiden Papyrus X and the Stockholm Papyrus
7. Zosimos of Panopolis: Of Virtue, Lesson 1-3
8. Stephanos of Alexandria: from The Great and Sacred Art of the Making of Gold
9. Anonymous: The Poem of the Philosopher Theophrastos upon the Sacred Art
Part II. Islamic and Medieval Texts:
10. Khalid ibn Yazid: from Secreta Alchymiae
11. Pseudo-Geber: from Of the Investigation or Search of Perfection
Of the Sum of Perfection
and His Book of Furnaces
12. Avicenna: De Congelatione et Conglutinatione Lapidum
13. Albertus Magnus: from the Libellus de Alchimia
14. Roger Bacon: from the Radix Mundi
15. Nicolas Flamel: from His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures
16. Bernard, Earl of Trevisan: A Treatise of the Philosophers Stone
17. George Ripley: The Epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward the 4
Part III. Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Texts:
18. Paracelsus: from Of the Nature of Things and Paracelsus His Aurora
19. Francis Anthony: Aurum-Potabile: or the Receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie
20. Michael Sendivogius: from A New Light of Alchymie and A Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature
21. Robert Fludd: from Mosaicall Philosophy
22. Gabriel Plattes: A Caveat for Alchymists
23. John French: preface to The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trimegistus in XVII Books
24. George Starkey/Eirenaeus Philalethes: The Admirable Efficacy, and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl
from An Exposition Upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV
25. Elias Ashmole: Prolegomena to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
26. Robert Boyle: from An Historical Account of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chymical Narrative
27. Isaac Newton: The Key (Keynes MS 18)
The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes MS 28), King's College, Cambridge
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Magic, Religion, and Witchcraft in Europe
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