437. Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!
Themes:
• J. Rampling, “Transmission and Transmutation: George Ripley and the Place of English Alchemy in Early Modern Europe,” Early Science and Medicine, 17 (2012), 477-99.
• J. Rampling, “John Dee and the Alchemists: Practising and Promoting English Alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 43 (2012), 498-508.
• J. Rampling, “Transmuting Sericon: Alchemy as ‘Practical Exegesis’ in Early Modern England,” Osiris, 29 (2014), 19-34.
• J. Rampling, “The Englishing of Medieval Alchemy,” Ambix 63 (2016), 268-72.
• J. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 (Chicago: 2020).
• J. Rampling, “Spirited matter and ingenious nature : accounting for alchemical change,” in R.J. Oosterhoff et al. (ed.), Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe (Pittsburgh: 2021).
Comments
Would you say that alchemists in Her Majesty's secret service…
…had a licence to distill?
In reply to Would you say that alchemists in Her Majesty's secret service… by Neville Park
Philosophers' tone
Boom tish!
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