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| Titolo: | The alchemy reader : from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton / edited by Stanton J. Linden. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2003. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VI, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. Illustrations. Introduction. Pt. 1. Ancient text: 1. The Emerald table = Tabula Smaragdina / Hermes Trismegistus 2. From the Timaeus / Plato (c. 427-347 BC) 3. From the Meteorology / Aristotle (384-322 BC) 4. From The treatise of Democritus on things natural and mystical / Pseudo-Democritus (first or second century AD) 5. Dialogue of Cleopatra and the philosophers / Anonymous (first or second century AD) 6. From Leyden papyrus X and the Stockholm papyrus / Anonymus (late third century AD) 7. Of virtue, lessons 1-3 / Zosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300 AD) 8. From The great and sacred art of the making of gold / Stephanos of Alexandria (first half of seventh century AD) 9. The poem of the philosopher Theophrastos upon the sacred art / Anonymous (eight or ninth century AD). Pt. 2. Islamic and medieval texts: 10. From Secreta alchymiae / Khalid ibn Yazid (635-c. 704) 11. From Of the investigation or search of perfection; Of the sum of perfection; and His book of furnaces / Jabir ibn Hayyan (eight century), Pseudo-Geber (thirteenth century) 12. De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum / Avicenna (c. 980-1037) 13. From the Libellus de alchimia / Albertus Magnus (1193? or 1206?-1280) 14. From the Radix mundi / Roger Bacon (c. 1219-c. 1292) 15. From His exposition of the hieroglyphical figures / Nicolas Flamel (1330?-1417?) 16. A treatise of the philosopher's stone / Bernard, earl of Trevisan (fl. late fourteenth century) 17. The epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward IV / George Ripley (1415-1490). Pt. 3. Renaissance and seventeenth-century texts: 18. From Of the nature of things and Paracelsus his aurora / Paracelsus (1493-1541) 19. Aurum-potabile, or The receit of dr. Fr. Antonie / Francis Anthony (1550-1603) 20. From A new light of alchymie and A dialogue between Mercury, the alchymist and nature / Michael Sendivogius (1566-1636 or 1646) 21. From the Mosaicall philosophy / Robert Fludd (1574-1637) 22. A caveat for alchymists / Gabriel Plattes (first half of seventeenth century) 23. Preface to The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus in XVII books / John French (1616?-1657) 24. The admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl; From An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's epistle to King Edward IV / George Starkey-Eirenaeus Philalethes (1628-1665?) 25. From the Prolegomena to the Theatrum chemicum britannicum / Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) 26. From An historical account of a degradation of gold made by an anti-elixir: a strange chymical narative / Robert Boyle (1627-1691) 27. The key (Keynes MS 18); The commentary on the Emerald tablet (Keynes MS 28) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Glossary. Bibliography. Index |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| ISBN: | 0521796628 |
| Altri autori: | Plato, 427-347 a.C.
Anonimo, sec. I-II. Aristoteles, 384-322 a.C. Anonimo, sec. III. Zosimus, alchimista, sec. III-IV. Anonimo, sec. VIII-IX. Khalid ben Yazid, m. 704?. Avicenna, 980-1037. Albertus Magnus, santo, ca. 1193-1280. Bacon, Roger, ca. 1214-1294. Flamel, Nicolas, ca. 1330-ca. 1417. Bernardus Trevisanus, 1406-1490. Ripley, George, 1415-1490. Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636. Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623. Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637. Plattes, Gabriel, sec. XVII. French, John, 1616-1657. Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692. Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Stanton, J. Linden. Jabir ibn Hayyan, sec. VIII-IX. Pseudo Geber. Stephanus Atheniensis, sec. VII. Bolus Mendesius, sec. III a.C. Hermes, Trismegistus, sec. II-IV. |
| Discipline: | Alchimia--Testi e Carteggi. |
| Keyword: | Testi e Carteggi--Magia, Astrologia e Alchimia. |
| Correlato a: |  Pereira, Michela 1948- Recensione]. |
| Collocazione: | LS 13911 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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