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.
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"... a new and valuable source of how these complicated ideas were originally expressed." Seattle Weekly
"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
"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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The Alchemy Reader offers a convenient introduction to a wide range of alchemical authors and works, from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century. Organised chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernised versions. The selections and extensive apparatus aim to provide the reader with a solid point of entry to the field and to its interdisciplinary links with science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature and the arts.
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excellent edition of primary sources,
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nice, easy to use, accessible translations. one of the first places one should go to get one's feet wet in the subject. useful introduction.
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This book offers an introduction to alchemy through the words of some of the art's most notable authorities, and because the number of works is enormous, few readers will perhaps be satisfied with all the readings. Invariably, questions of inclusion (or exclusion) will arise that even the ablest defense may not justify. For example, the brief selections of Plato and Aristotle are included, not because they deal with alchemy per se - although many spurious treatises came to be fathered upon both philosophers - but because they set forth important background ideas (e.g., on prime matter, the transformation of the elements, and the formation of metals) that were long-lived and exerted considerable influence on subsequent alchemical theory.
See also Linden's Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy And Renaissance Culture (Ams Studies in the Renaissance).
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This piece is a good compilation. I have yet to thoroughly study each passage, but I have covered many. Some pieces do not at first appear to fit in (and perhaps they don't- I could very well be crazy), but after pulling yourself back from a linear view it comes together nicely. It is true that many sections of this compilation can be found elsewhere if you look so I recomend it for anyone looking for the essence of concepts set down by past leaders in the field.
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Hermes Trismegistus, the "thrice great," demands place at the beginning of this collection, not for reasons of "actual" existence, scientific dating, and absolute chronology, but by virtue of the deeply rooted psychological appeal of myth, legend, and tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nature conquers nature, alchemical discourse, argent vive, naturall things, alchemical authors, alchemical interests, common mercury, moist fire, alchemical knowledge, alchemical opus, alchemical treatises, nature rejoices, alchemical writing, aurum potabile Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Ripley, Emerald Table, Robert Boyle, Hermes Trismegistus, Saint Peter, King Edward, Albertus Magnus, Aristotle's Meteorology, Elias Ashmole, First Book, Mercurius Trismegistus, Mercury of Philosophers, Ripley's Epistle, Sir Isaac Newton, Abraham the Jew, Middle Ages, New Light of Alchymie, Nicholas Flammel, Nicolas Flamel, Princeton University Press, Radix Mundi, William Cooper, Cambridge University Press, Collectanea Chymica, Corpus Hermeticum New!
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Hermes Trismegistus, the "thrice great," demands place at the beginning of this collection, not for reasons of "actual" existence, scientific dating, and absolute chronology, but by virtue of the deeply rooted psychological appeal of myth, legend, and tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nature conquers nature, alchemical discourse, argent vive, naturall things, alchemical authors, alchemical interests, common mercury, moist fire, alchemical knowledge, alchemical opus, alchemical treatises, nature rejoices, alchemical writing, aurum potabile Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Ripley, Emerald Table, Robert Boyle, Hermes Trismegistus, Saint Peter, King Edward, Albertus Magnus, Aristotle's Meteorology, Elias Ashmole, First Book, Mercurius Trismegistus, Mercury of Philosophers, Ripley's Epistle, Sir Isaac Newton, Abraham the Jew, Middle Ages, New Light of Alchymie, Nicholas Flammel, Nicolas Flamel, Princeton University Press, Radix Mundi, William Cooper, Cambridge University Press, Collectanea Chymica, Corpus Hermeticum New!
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- Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (Sources of Science, No. 39) on 9 pages
- Prelude to Chemistry by John Read on 6 pages
- English Paracelsians by Allen G. Debus on 5 pages
- The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest by Lawrence Principe on 4 pages
- Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates on 4 pages
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- Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts by Georg Luck in Back Matter
- Between Courtly Literature and Al-Andaluz: Oriental Symbolism and Influences in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Michelle Reichert in Back Matter
- The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions by Margaret C. Jacob in Back Matter
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