Description: What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their nationaland in some cases royalistloyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in Englands church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.
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Subject Area: Alchemy
Book Title: Alchemical Belief
Publication Name: Alchemical Belief
Item Length: 9.6in
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: Beliefs
Series: Magic in History Ser.
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8in
Author: Bruce Janacek
Topic: Occultism
Item Width: 6.4in
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
