Leaven of Dough, Ferment of Gold: The Breadmaking Analogy in Medieval Metallic Transmutation [0.03%]
从面团到黄金——论中世纪金属变形中的制面包隐喻
Carmen Schmechel
Carmen Schmechel
This paper traces the analogy between the making of bread with ferment (leaven or yeast) and theories of metallic transmutation throughout the Middle Ages. For this purpose it surveys several medieval alchemical writings, including Hortulan...
Carmen Schmechel
Carmen Schmechel
This Ambix special issue explores premodern alchemical ideas and practices in their entanglements with medicine. It employs diverse methods, from traditional close reading to the new distant-reading framework of computational humanities, to...
Charles Wolfe
Charles Wolfe
In what follows I examine Diderot's chemically influenced vital materialism. Once condemned as "mechanistic," materialism has had something of a renaissance in recent decades as scholars have rediscovered a tradition of "vital materialism" ...
Fire, Vulcanus, Archeus, and Alchemy: A Hybrid Close-Distant Reading of Paracelsus's Thought on Active Agents [0.03%]
论帕拉塞尔斯us关于活性因素的思想：一种混合的近读与远读方法
Georgiana D Hedesan
Georgiana D Hedesan
The Swiss physician and philosopher Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541) is known for his strong advocacy of medical alchemy. That his natural philosophy was tied to medical alchemy is perhaps uncontroversial, but just ...
Distilling the Art of Distillation in an Unstudied Manuscript of "Chymicall Notions" [0.03%]
一本未研究的《化学观念》手稿中的蒸馏艺术及其提炼
Justin Begley
Justin Begley
This article focuses on a curious manuscript treatise in the British Library, Harley MS 6940, which the learned physician Samuel Bispham composed for the English patron and horseman William Cavendish (1593-1676), most likely in the mid-1640...
The Emergence of Chemical Medicine in Early Modern Naples (1600-1660) [0.03%]
早期现代那不勒斯（1600-1660）的化学医学之兴起
Antonio Clericuzio
Antonio Clericuzio
Despite the increasing interest in Italian medicine, comparatively little attention has been paid to the establishment of iatrochemistry. Though this process spread throughout the Peninsula, Naples witnessed an impressive growth of chemical...
Fragments of Alchemy from a Cairene Synagogue: Context, Codicology, and Contents of the Alchemical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah [0.03%]
出自开罗萨拉姆 synagogue的炼金术文献：来自《开罗古卷》的炼金术文献的内容、纸草学和历史环境研究
Gabriele Ferrario
Gabriele Ferrario
This article presents the results of a survey and a first assessment of the corpus of alchemical manuscripts retrieved from the Cairo Genizah, a storage room mainly intended for sacred writings that is attached to the Ben Ezra synagogue of ...
A Very "Distilled" Emblem in Baroque Rome: Natural Philosophy, Alchemy, and Atomism in the Academy of the Umoristi [0.03%]
极为精炼的巴洛克罗马徽标：umoristi学院的自然哲学、炼金术与原子论
Maria Fiammetta Iovine
Maria Fiammetta Iovine
Created and published in a printed volume in 1611, the emblem chosen by the literary Academy of the Umoristi is intriguing at multiple levels. At a time when the water cycle was still unknown, the image engaged the thorny question of how th...
Translating Forbidden Authors: New Evidence on the Alchemical Library of Don Antonio de' Medici [0.03%]
禁书的译介：唐·安东尼奥·德’美第奇密室藏书的新证据
Stefano Mulas
Stefano Mulas
Research into the history of alchemy and Paracelsianism in Italy has highlighted the role of Italian courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as centres of elaboration and diffusion of alchemical knowledge. Among these, one of the ...