Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
Edited by Efthymios Nicolaidis
What do we really know about Greek alchemy throughout the ages? Certain periods, such as the Byzantine and post-Byzantine, have been somewhat overlooked. This volume engages in the effort to shed light on certain aspects of Greek Alchemy from the 1st century CE to the 18th century, discussing and presenting relative sources, as well as the reception, transformation and use of this ‘art’. The book also examines newly discovered manuscripts and offers a commented translation of Stephanos of Alexandria’s prayers. Furthermore, to better understand the material aspect of alchemy, it addresses the expectations and problems of laboratory replication and chemical explanation of early alchemical processes, and presents educational activities that use historical texts for the reconstruction of apparatuses in the school laboratory in secondary education.
- Edited by Efthymios Nicolaidis
Other Titles in this Series
Correspondence of Luigi Cremona (1830-1903)
Conserved in the Department of Mathematics, Sapienza, University of Rome
Correspondance de Johannes Hevelius
Tome II: Correspondance avec la cour de France et ses agents avec un dossier sur la querelle de la comete de 1664-1665
Volume 62
De Mundi Recentioribus Phaenomenis
Cosmologie et science dans l'Europe des Temps modernes, XVe-XVIIe siecles. Essais en l'honneur de Miguel Angel Granada
Correspondance de Johannes Hevelius
Tome III. Correspondance avec Pierre des Noyers, secretaire de la Reine de Pologne, 1646-1686
Astrometeorologia en al-Andalus y el Magrib entre los siglos VIII y XV
El Kitab al-amtar wa'l as'ar (Libro de las lluvias y de los precios) de Abu 'Abd Allah al-Baqqar (fl. 1411-1418)
A l’aube de la theorie des quanta
Notes inedites d'Emile Borel sur un cours de Paul Langevin au College de France (1912-1913)
Walcher of Malvern, De lunationibus and De Dracone
Study, Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Volume 101
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