Alchemy and Rudolf II: Exploring the Secrets of Nature in Central Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Contents

Preface Ivo Purš / 9 Edition and terminological note / 15 Alchemy in Central Europe and in Imperial Prague A Path to the Rudolfine World / 19 Vladimír Karpenko Alchemy at the Aristocratic Courts of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown / 47 Ivo Purš and Vladimír Karpenko The Habsburgs on the Bohemian Throne and Their Interest in Alchemy and the Occult Sciences / 93 Ivo Purš The Scientific Education of a Renaissance Prince: Archduke Rudolf at the Spanish Court / 129 William Eamon Rudolf II’s Patronage of Alchemy and the Natural Sciences / 139 Ivo Purš “Transforming the Whole Corpus Solis into Liquor Irreducibilis.” Laboratory Alchemy at the Court of Emperor Rudolf II / 205 Rudolf Werner Soukup Transmutation: Miracles and Doubts / 229 Vladimír Karpenko Alchemical Manuscripts in the Collections of Rudolf II / 249 Alena Richterová Alchemical Translation in Rudolfine Prague: The Case of George Ripley / 293 Jennifer M. Rampling The Voynich MS in Rudolfine Prague / 297 René Zandbergen and Rafał T. Prinke Alchemy Protagonists in the Age of Rudolf II Nolite de me inquirere [Do not seek to ask about me]: Michael Sendivogius / 317 Rafał T. Prinke Michael Maier and his Prague Activities / 335 Ivo Purš and Jaroslava Hausenblasová Between Medicine and Politics: Oswald Croll’s Activity in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Reign of Rudolf II / 367 Jaroslava Hausenblasová The Word of God and the Universal Medicine in the Chemical Philosophy of Oswald Croll / 381 Hiro Hirai Imagination and the Heavenly Body in the Alchemic Cosmology of Oswald Croll / 387 Jakub Hlaváček Matthias Erbinäus von Brandau (von Brandow): Alchemy between Reality and Phantasy / 393 Vladimír Karpenko Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek and his Alchemical Circle / 423 Ivo Purš 6 Sebald Schwertzer: Between Metallurgy and Alchemy / 671 Vladimír Karpenko and Ivo Purš Abramo Colorni and the Secret of Acquiring Niter / 691 Vladimír Karpenko Pharmacy in the Rudolfine Age / 699 Pavel Drábek Sequel Rudolfine Alchemy Daniel Stolcius and Emblematic Alchemy / 719 Vladimír Karpenko Joannes Marcus Marci and his Circle / 741 Josef Smolka Summary / 771 Illustrations / 793 Sources and bibliography / 815 Authors / 855 Index / 857 Tycho Brahe: Between Astronomy and Alchemy / 459 Vladimír Karpenko and Ivo Purš Edward Kelly: A Star of the Rudolfine Era / 489 Vladimír Karpenko and Ivo Purš Anselm Boëthius de Boodt: Physician, Mineralogist and Alchemist / 535 Ivo Purš Martin Ruland the Elder, Martin Ruland the Younger, and the Milieu of Emperor’s Personal Doctors / 581 Ivo Purš and Josef Smolka Simon Thadeas Budek and his Contacts at the Court of Rudolf II / 607 Jaroslava Hausenblasová and Ivo Purš Cornelius Drebbel: Inventor, Mechanic, and Alchemist / 625 Vladimír Karpenko and Ivo Purš Alchemy in the Everyday Life of First Chamber Servants of Rudolf II / 647 Václav Bůžek Alchemy in the Context of Science and Economy Mining and Metallogenesis in Bohemia during the Sixteenth Century / 657 John A. Norris

Vydání: Praha: Artefactum - Ústav dějin umění, Akademie věd České republiky 2016, pův. kartonová vazba, pův. obálka, 869 stran s barevnými ilustracemi, 22 x 26,5 cm, jazyk: anglicky

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