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The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton » (1st Edition)
Authors: Henry Miller, Stanton J. Linden
ISBN-13: 9780521796620, ISBN-10: 0521796628
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Henry Miller
Stanton J. Linden is Professor Emeritus of English, Washington State University. His publications include Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration (1996), Emblems and Alchemy (co-editor, 1998), and a critical edition of George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (2001).
Book Synopsis
An introduction to a wide range of alchemical authors and works.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| Illustrations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Ancient Texts | |
| 1 | The Emerald Table (Tabula Smaragdina) | 27 |
| 2 | From the Timaeus | 29 |
| 3 | From the Meteorology | 34 |
| 4 | From The Treatise of Democritus On Things Natural and Mystical | 38 |
| 5 | Dialogue of Cleopatra and the Philosophers | 44 |
| 6 | From Leyden Papyrus X and the Stockholm Papyrus | 46 |
| 7 | Of Virtue, Lessons 1-3 | 50 |
| 8 | From The Great and Sacred Art of the Making of Gold | 54 |
| 9 | The Poem of the Philosopher Theophrastos Upon the Sacred Art | 61 |
| Pt. II | Islamic and medieval texts | |
| 10 | From Secreta Alchymiae | 71 |
| 11 | From Of the Investigation or Search of Perfection; Of the Sum of Perfection; and His Book of Furnaces | 80 |
| 12 | De Congelatione et Conglutinatione Lapidum | 95 |
| 13 | From the Libellus de Alchimia | 99 |
| 14 | From the Radix Mundi | 111 |
| 15 | From His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures | 123 |
| 16 | A Treatise of the Philosopher's Stone | 136 |
| 17 | The Epistle of George Ripley written to King Edward IV | 141 |
| Pt. III | Renaissance and seventeenth-century texts | |
| 18 | From Of the Nature of Things and Paracelsus His Aurora | 151 |
| 19 | Aunum-Potabile: or the Receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie | 170 |
| 20 | From A New Light of Alchymie and A Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature | 174 |
| 21 | From the Mosaicall Philosophy | 191 |
| 22 | A Caveat for Alchymists | 199 |
| 23 | Preface to The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus in XVII Books | 208 |
| 24 | The Admirable Efficacy, and almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl; From An Exposition Upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV | 211 |
| 25 | From the "Prolegomena" to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum | 222 |
| 26 | From An Historical Account of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chymical Narative | 234 |
| 27 | The Key (Keynes MS 18); The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes MS 28) | 243 |
| Glossary | 248 | |
| Bibliography | 250 | |
| Index | 254 |
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