Alchemy In The Nineteenth Century
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Author | : Helena P. Blavatsky |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1631184466 |
Helena P. Blavatsky was a prolific writer and scholar who spearheaded the modern Theosophic movement. Here she gives an historical examination of the history and study of alchemy, but specifically as it was related to the esotericists of the 19th century. And, as always she includes her philosophical comments on the matter.
Author | : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781500746889 |
THE language of archaic chemistry or Alchemy has always been, like that of the earlier religions, symbolical. We have shown in the Secret Doctrine that everything in this world of effects has three attributes or the triple synthesis of the seven principles. In order to state this more clearly, let us say that everything which exists in the world around us is made up of three principles and four aspects just as we have shown to be the case with man. As man is a complex unity consisting of a body, a rational soul and an immortal spirit so each object in nature possesses an objective exterior, a vital soul, and a divine spark which is purely spiritual and subjective.
Author | : Raphael Patai |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140086366X |
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Eleanor Dobson |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2022-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1787358488 |
Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as ‘alchemical’. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science. Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing, counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to this day.
Author | : John French |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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With 42 woodcut illustrations. This is a detailed handbook of knowledge and practice at the time, said to be possibly the earliest definitive book on distillation, by John French, an English physician who lived in the 17th Century.
Author | : Lawrence Principe |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0226682951 |
Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been dismissed as the realm of myth and magic, or fraud and pseudoscience. And while its themes and ideas persist in some expected and unexpected places, from the Philosopher's (or Sorcerer's) Stone of Harry Potter to the self-help mantra of transformation, there has not been a serious, accessible, and up-to-date look at the complete history and influence of alchemy until now.
Author | : William R. Newman |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780262140751 |
A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
Author | : Jacob Wamberg |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788763502672 |
These richly illustrated articles cover the representation of alchemy in art from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. The authors, who are artists, curators and art historians from the US and Europe, address such topics as alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist and modernist art; Netherlandish 17th-century portrayals of alchemists; and alchemy as the forerunner of photography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.