Bianchi, Massimo

Bianchi, Massimo Luigi. "The visible and the invisible From alchemy to Paracelsus." In Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries, eds. Piyo Rattansi and Antonio Clericuzio, 17-50. Dordrecht Kluwer Academic, 1994. 

Bianchi, Massimo, The Visible and the Invisible From Alchemy to Paracelsus , in P. Rattansi and A. Clericuzio (eds.). Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 17-50. 

For a more detailed analysis of the concepts set out here and in the following pages concerning Paracelsus, see Massimo L. Bianchi, Signatura rerum. Segni, magia e conoscenza da Paracelso a Leibniz, (Rome, 1987), pp. 61-86. 

Massimo Bianchi was educated at the University of Rome, La Sapienza . He is currently Dirigente di Ricerca at the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, CNR, Rome. He is the author of articles and lexicons on sixteenth and seventeenth-century philosophy, and of Signatura Rerum, Segni, Magia e Conoscenza da Paracelso a Leibniz (Rome, 1987) and of Lessico del Paragranum, vol. 1, Indici (Rome, 1988). 

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