Kahn, Didier

Kahn, Didier. Entre atomisme, alchimie et theologie la reception des theses d Atoine de Villon et Etienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les... 

Kahn, Didier. 2001. Inceste, assasinat, persecutions et alchimie en France et a Geneve (1576-1596), Bibliotheque d humanisme et Renaissance 63 227-259. 

Kahn, Didier. Alchimie et architecture de la pyramide a l eglise alchimique, in Frank Greiner, ed., Aspects de la tradition alchimique au XVII siecle (Paris S.E.H.A., 1998), pp. 295-335. 

The most recent analysis of the treatise appeared in Urszula Szulakowska, Two Italian alchemical manuscripts some philosophical problems monism and dualism in Didier Kahn, Sylvain Matton (eds)., Alchimie art, histoire et mythes. Actes du 1 a colloque international de la Societe d Etude de I Histoire de I Alchimie, conference papers, Paris, College de France, 14-16 mars, 1991 (Paris/Milan, 1995), 249-63. 

Szulakowska, Urszula. "Monism and dualism in 15th-century Italian alchemy Inter- action between text, image and graphic style in Ms. Ashbumham 1166 (ca. 1470)." In Alchimie Art, histoire et mythes. Actes du ler colloque international de la Socie te d E tude de I Histoire de l Alchimie (Paris, Colle ge de France, 14-15-16Mars 1991). Sous la direction de Didier Kahn et Sylvain Matton, eds. Didier Kahn and Sylvain Matton. Paris Milan Socie te d E tude de I Histoire de l Alchimie Arche, 1995. 

See Priesner and Figala, Alchemie, s.v. "Dorn, Gerhard" and Didier Kahn, "Les d6buts de Gerhard Dorn," in Telle, Analecta Paracelsica, 59-126. 

Michel Chillat( ), Les Souffleurs (Paris, 1695) Que la Chimie est admirable, 99-100. On the play see also Didier Kahn, L alchimie sur le scene Irancaise aux XVIe et XVII siecles, Chrysopoeia 2, fasc. 1, 1988, 62-96. It is reported by Maupoint, Bibliotheque des theatres (Paris, 1733), 288, that the play was not performed even if this report is true, the work was very popular as witnessed by the five printed editions that appeared within 18 months. 

Josephus Quercetanus, Liber depriscorum philosophorum verae medicinae materia. . . (Saint-Gervais Haeredes Eustathii Vignon, 1603). For a very comprehensive treatment of the Paracelsian debate in France, see Didier Kahn, Paracelsisme et alchimie en France a la fin de la Renaissance (1567-1625) (Ph.D. thesis, Universite de Paris IV, 1998) see also Allen G. Debus, The French Paracelsians (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1991, esp. 46-101 and Thorndike, History of Magic, 6 247-253. 

William Whitney, La legende de Van Eyck alchimiste, in Alchimie art, histoire et mythes, ed Didier Kahn and Sylvain Matton (Paris Societe d Etude de l Histoire de PAlchimie, 1995),... 

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