5/18/2023 0 Comments Alchemy 43The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction. Roger Bacon’s Place in the History of Alchemy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.īrehm, Edmund. Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae, Trans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.īacon, Roger. In A Source Book in Medieval Science, ed. ![]() On the Formation of Minerals and Metals and the Impossibility of Alchemy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Īshmole, Elias. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 3 vols. The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine, Trans. I examine the diffusion of alchemy into the Western world via Robert of Chester’s translation in 1144, its further incarnations and developments through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and later influential European literature such as Dante’s Inferno, Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose, William Langland’s Piers Plowman, Thomas Norton’s Ordinal of Alchemy, and George Ripley’s The Compound of Alchemy.Īlbertus Magnus. ![]() These classical, Arabic, and Persian thinkers established what alchemy could be and were seen as successful with their art, which sets a precedence for the attempted success of the medieval alchemists. The chapter begins with the origins of alchemy in the classical and Arabic world, citing key figures such as Zosimos of Panopolis, Hermes Trismegistus, and Jabir al-Hayyan, as well as texts and ideologies which influenced and shaped alchemical understanding in late medieval England. Chapter 2 effectively contextualizes the role of alchemy within fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England from a historical, philosophical, and literary perspective, as well as revealing its developments and theories into that period, all of which are crucial to understanding the alchemical literature during this time. The second chapter provides a brief introduction to medieval alchemy and its origins, as well as influential alchemical texts, themes, and ideas.
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