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Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Engelsk Hardback

Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Engelsk Hardback
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Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and pre-modern medicine, this volume reveals how physicians practiced alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. It shows how, besides sharing knowledge, physicians and alchemists engaged in fierce polemics, adapted one another’s techniques, and united against common foes. Whether appropriating medical knowledge or defining themselves in opposition to it, alchemical practitioners engaged continually with the practice, theory, and language of medicine.

Adopting a longue durée approach to explore these connections, the sixteen essays in this collection each address a key topic in the history of alchemy and medicine, written by a subject specialist – in many cases, the leading authority on that topic. While European traditions provide the core of the volume, contributors also discuss Greco-Roman Egypt, medieval Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the East Indies; accommodating Greek, Arabic, Latin, and vernacular traditions. Examination of these themes and contexts furthers our understanding of issues central to the history of science and medicine: the relationship between court and city, print and manuscript, and theoretical and practical knowledge; the circulation of "secrets" literature; the role of chemical medicine in courts and universities; and the material and economic context of alchemy.

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Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and pre-modern medicine, this volume reveals how physicians practiced alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. It shows how, besides sharing knowledge, physicians and alchemists engaged in fierce polemics, adapted one another’s techniques, and united against common foes. Whether appropriating medical knowledge or defining themselves in opposition to it, alchemical practitioners engaged continually with the practice, theory, and language of medicine.

Adopting a longue durée approach to explore these connections, the sixteen essays in this collection each address a key topic in the history of alchemy and medicine, written by a subject specialist – in many cases, the leading authority on that topic. While European traditions provide the core of the volume, contributors also discuss Greco-Roman Egypt, medieval Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the East Indies; accommodating Greek, Arabic, Latin, and vernacular traditions. Examination of these themes and contexts furthers our understanding of issues central to the history of science and medicine: the relationship between court and city, print and manuscript, and theoretical and practical knowledge; the circulation of "secrets" literature; the role of chemical medicine in courts and universities; and the material and economic context of alchemy.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781138286368
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1138286362
Kategori: Religionsfilosofi
Udg. Dato: 31 dec 2024
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 156mm
Højde: 234mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 31 dec 2024
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Kategori Religionsfilosofi

ISBN-13 9781138286368

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 156mm

Højde 234mm

Udg. Dato 31 dec 2024

Oplagsdato 31 dec 2024

Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd

Kategori sammenhænge