The Mirror of Alchemy: Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books : from Antiquity to the Seventeenth CenturyIn this accessible and authoritative study, Gareth Roberts provides an introduction to the history, concepts, terms and presuppositions of western European alchemy, as well as discussing the works of individual alchemists and the characteristically metaphorical and paradoxical languages they employed. With a wealth of illustrations in colour and black and white, drawn from he outstanding collections of alchemical manuscripts and printed books in The British Library, and an illustrated glossary of alchemical terms, The Mirror of Alchemy is a fascinating survey of the subject for anyone interested in medieval and Renaissance thought and culture. |
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The Mirror of Alchemy: Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books ... Gareth Roberts No preview available - 1994 |
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15th cent Albertus Magnus Albertus Magnus 1958 alchemical process alchemical texts alchemical treatises alchemists aqua Aquinas Arabic Aristotle Arnold of Villanova Ashmole Atalanta fugiens Oppenheim Avicenna Berthelot 1888 Bloomfield's blossoms body British Library calcination Chapter colours Coudert Crosland distillation earth elixir Emblem English Sloane Epistola ferment figured fire Frankfurt 1625 fugiens Oppenheim 1617 Geber George Ripley gold Greek Halleux Harley MS 3528 heat Helvetius Hermes Holmyard incipit John Dastin Jonson Kibre king later alchemical Latin DWS 192 Latin DWS 226 Lullian manuscripts Marcellin Berthelot medicine metals Michael Maier Musaeum Hermeticum Musaeum Hermeticum 1678 nature Nicholas Flamel Ordinal of alchemy perfection perfectionis Petrus Bonus Petrus Bonus 1894 philosophers PLATE practica Rasis Roger Bacon Rosarius Rulandus sal ammoniac Semita recta Speculum alchimiae stage Stone substance Symbola aureae mensae things Thomas Charnock Thomas Norton Thorndike Tractatus translation transmutation Turba philosophorum vessel volatile Zosimos