Alchemy European

One of the most authoritative and oldest European alchemy texts, dating from the twelfth century AD. It is organized into 72 Dictums"... 

Karpenko, Vladimir. European alchemy some traditional beliefs. BullIndInst HistMed29, no. 1 (Jan 1999) 63-70. 

Karpenko, Vladimir. Late European alchemy the world of confusion. Hamdard Med 39, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 1996) 94-97. 

Sheppard, Harry J. "European alchemy in the context of a universal definition." In Die Alchemie in der europaischen Kulur- und Wissenschaftsgesischte, ed. Christoph Meinel, 13-17. Wiesbaden Harrassowitz, 1986. 

Karpenko, Vladimir. Die Edelgeborne. Jungfer Alchemia. the final stage of European alchemy. Bull Hist Chem 25, no. 1 (2000) 50-63. 

Szulakowska, Urszula. John Dee and European alchemy. Durham Univ of Durham School of Education, [1996 ]. 47p. ISBN 1-87026-880-6... 

Davis, Tenney L. The dualistic cosmogony of Huai-Nan-Tzu and its relations to the background of Chinese and European alchemy. Isis 25, no. 2 (Sep 1936) 327-340. 

In this consideration of the history of European alchemy, Newman explores the relations between the natural and artificial and the links between art and science." Focusses primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700. Contents Introduction. From Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans The Problem of... 

Extracted from his Alchemy rediscovered and restored (1940). Contents The alchemists Chinese alchemy Egyptian alchemy Arabian alchemy European alchemy The English alchemists Alchemy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries... 

Alchemical theories are central to the middle ages and the Renaissance. Chaucer and Shakespeare were heavily steeped in the subject, and it still exerts a fascination today. This is a scholarly and accessible introduction to Western European alchemy, and to the iconography of Alchemical works from antiquity to the rise of chemistry. It includes an illustrated glossary of Alchemical terms and biographies of major alchemists. It is intended for students of medieval and Renaissance art, literature and history art historians and anyone with a general interest in the history and principles of alchemy or medieval culture... 

Karpenko, Vladimir. From metals to human beings medical aspects of European alchemy. Bull Ind Inst Hist Med 21, no. 2 (1991) 105-119. 

Karpenko, Vladimir. Medical aspects of the late European alchemy. Bull Ind Inst HistMed25, no. 1-2 (Jan-Jul 1995) 202-215. 

It is in Arabic alchemy that two concepts that were to become central to European alchemy are encountered for the first time the Philosopher s Stone and the elixir of life. The Philosopher s Stone was a substance reputedly able to transform base metals into gold. In spite of the name, it wasn t thought of as a stone and was often... 

The appearance of Arabic alchemical works in Latin translation launched European alchemy during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Although the European alchemists never succeeded in making... 

Robert s translation of Morienus s Book of the Composition of Alchemy in 1144 traditionally marks the beginnings of mediaeval European alchemy. He was also responsible for introducing algebra to the West. 

Shamanism in Peru is like European alchemy in that it utilized psychic involvement in matter, but European alchemy became entrapped in a fascination with metals and purified elements. Psychedelic shamanism more happily centered its attention on living matter, specifically plants, where alkaloids and other bio-dynamic constituents congenial to the primate nervous system are encountered.i... 

The intense involvement of the alchemist, even a feeling of inner devotion, also characterizes the work of analysis. Psychology is a very young discipline—perhaps as naive in its way as European alchemy was in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Psychology, too, has struggled with the tensions between the exoteric and esoteric, between a scientific empiricism focused on behavior and an opposing approach that includes the embodied inner life of the individual and does not exclude... 

Characteristics of Arabic alchemy are evident in the work of the following personages identified with it. Although the actual existence of some of these personalities as individuals is questionable, they were, as composites or otherwise, historically influential The fairly clear written records of their work were the base on which European alchemy was to be built. 

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