A Pocket Essential Short History of Alchemy & Alchemists
Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools.In this Pocket Essential Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth. It is important to see the search for the philosopher's stone and the attempts to turn base metal into gold as metaphors for the relation of man to nature and man to God as much as seriously held beliefs.Alchemy had a self-consistent outlook on the natural world and man's place in it. Alchemists like Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus were amongst the greatest minds of their time and the history of alchemy is both the history of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84243-538-0
- EAN: 9781842435380
- Produktnummer: 14799506
- Verlag: Oldcastle Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 671 KB
Über den Autor
Sean Martin is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He has written Pocket Essential guides on The Knights Templar, Alchemy and Alchemists, The Gnostics, The Cathars and Kamera Books on Andrei Tarkovsky and New Waves in Cinema. His films include Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema ('a fine documentary' - The Guardian), and Folie à Deux.
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