The alchemy reader : from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton
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The alchemy reader : from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Bibliography: p. [250]-253
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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.
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