Andreas Libavius and the transformation of alchemy : separating chemical cultures with polemical fire / Bruce T. Moran.
Pubblicazione:
Sagamore Beach : Science history publications, 2007.
Descrizione fisica:
VI, 344 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Dedication. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: placing Libavius, alchemy and chymistry 2. The school, the Schulfuchs and the habits of language 3. ...et ut bene doceas, bene item distingue: distinguishing the true art of chymistry 4. One book opens another: texts, enigmas, and transmutation 5. Structures of practice and communities of meaning: the virile assault of Nicolas Guibert 6. Libavius and religion: scripture and the order of nature 7. Legal disorder, testimony and the sites of sound judgement: Georg am Wald and Neoparacelsus 8. Saving medicine by taking a beating Paracelsian deceit vs. hermetic certainty: Brawling with Georg Graman and Henning Scheunemann 9. A sickle in a foreign field: Libavius and the doctors at Paris 10. The sons of unknown fathers: medical separations, philosophical mixture, and The triumph of aslchemy 11. What kind of vanity is that? Controversy and the conceit of revealed knowledge: defending ancient learning and the invisible of nature 12. They call us crazy: vital philosophy and the deficiency of the arts 13. Aristotelian possibilities: the magisteria of occult qualities, aurum potabile and the power of vipers 14. Sorcery and an uncertain judgement about an uncertain thing: the weapon salve and bleeding cadavers 15. Alchemy, artisans and personality in the history of science and medicine. Bibliography. Index
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