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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Alchemy

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Alchemy

Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature by William R. Newman
The alchemical corpus attributed to Raymond Lull by Michela Pereira
Call Number: B765.L84 P395 1989
Part of the series Warburg Institute surveys and texts.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the late Middle Ages by Leah DeVun
Call Number: BR115.A57 D48 2009
Genesis and the Chemical Philosophy by Michael Thomson Walton
Call Number: Q125.2 .W36 2011
Isaac Newton and the Transmutation of Alchemy by Philip Ashley Fanning
Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry by William R. Newman; Lawrence M. Principe
Call Number: QD18.G7 N48 2002
The Business of Alchemy: science and culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela H. Smith
Call Number: Q125.2 .S58 1994
The Salt of the Earth: natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 by Anna Maria Roos
Call Number: Q127.E8 R6712 2007
Distilling Knowledge: alchemy, chemistry, and the scientific revolution by Bruce T. Moran
Call Number: QD15 .M67 2005
Alchemie im Mittelalter : Ideen und Bilder--von Zosimos bis Paracelsus by Bernhard Dietrich Haage
Call Number: QD13 .H33 2000
Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700 : from previously unpublished manuscripts by Robert M. Schuler (Editor)
Call Number: PR1209 .A37 1995

Paracelsus

The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball
Call Number: R147.P2 B35 2006
Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Medicine by Walter Pagel; Marianne Winder (Editor)
Call Number: R147.P2 P29 1985
Paracelsus: medicine, magic and mission at the end of time by Charles Webster
Call Number: R147.P2 W33 2008
From Paracelsus to Newton : magic and the making of modern science by Charles Webster
Self and cosmos in Thoth Hermes Trismegistus, Meister Eckhart and Paracelsus by Elizabeth Ann Ambrose

Alchemy Articles

"Alchemy and Politics in England 1649-1665." by J. Andrew Mendelsohn
Past and Present 135 (May 1992):30-78.
“Alchemy and Hermeticism: An Introduction to This Issue.” by Michela Pereira
Early Science and Medicine 5, no. 2 (2000): 115-120.

Bibliographies

Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets by John Ferguson
Call Number: Z5524.A35 F3 1959
Located in Pius Spec Coll Archives/Rare Bks Ref
Katalog der arabischen alchemistischen Handschriften der Chester Beatty Library by Manfred Ullmann
Call Number: QD26 .U44 1974