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Alchemical belief : occultism in the religious culture of early modern England / Bruce Janacek.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Magic in historyPublisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271078038
  • 0271078030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alchemical belief.DDC classification:
  • 261.5/13094209031 23
LOC classification:
  • BR757
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Contents:
Thomas Tymme and natural philosophy: schism and alchemical unity in the book of nature -- Robert Fludd, natural theology, and the alchemical debate of 1623 -- Francis Bacon, alchemy, and the great redemption -- Catholic natural philosophy: alchemy and the revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby -- Elias Ashmole: the collection and culmination of alchemical thought.
Summary: "Explores the practice of alchemy in the context of the religious and political tensions in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England, and the use of occult knowledge to demonstrate proof of theological doctrines"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Thomas Tymme and natural philosophy: schism and alchemical unity in the book of nature -- Robert Fludd, natural theology, and the alchemical debate of 1623 -- Francis Bacon, alchemy, and the great redemption -- Catholic natural philosophy: alchemy and the revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby -- Elias Ashmole: the collection and culmination of alchemical thought.

"Explores the practice of alchemy in the context of the religious and political tensions in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England, and the use of occult knowledge to demonstrate proof of theological doctrines"--Provided by publisher.

English.

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