Alchemy and the Mendicant Orders of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Visualization in Medieval Alchemy

This paper explores major trends in visualization of medieval theories of natural and artificial transformation of substances in relation to their philosophical and theological bases. The function of pictorial forms is analyzed in terms of the prevailing conceptions of science and methods of transmitting knowledge. The documents under examination date from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centur...

The Live Chicken Treatment for Buboes: Trying a Plague Cure in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

This article traces a seven-hundred-year history of one puzzling treatment for plague buboes that used the rumps of chickens to draw out the bubo's poisons. It traces the origin of the recipe to Avicenna's Canon and explores how medieval and early modern physicians altered the treatment and explained its workings up to the early eighteenth century. Much of the analysis focuses on the variants o...

the investigation of the relationship between type a and type b personalities and quality of translation

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Modern Alchemy

developmental process. Surveying the mathematical analysis of Woodger and the contribution of experimental embryology to formation (Gestaltung), to segregation, to differentiation, to growth, to polarity and symmetry, and finally to regeneration, we are led through a consideration of the historical character of the organism to the system theory. We read, "We must view the germ as a whole, as a ...

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe