The Alchemy of Light: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration 9004116907, 9789004116900

Alchemical Symbols (R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy) [4 ed.] 1723544493

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Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance 9780226922850

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically a

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Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages 9780231519342

In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his follower

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In Late Light 1421408562, 9781421408569

There is a clearing by a certain stonewhere images flow and are worth stopping for. I have stayed there almost all day i

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The Age of Criticism: The Late Renaissance in Italy 9781501743443

Sperone Speroni, Ludovico Castelvetro, Francesco Patrizi, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, and Paolo Beni emerge as lite

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The Alchemical Amphitheatre: A Six-Month Introductory Course in Transformative Alchemy 0955856604, 9780955856600

Entrance to the Alchemical Amphitheatre By Marcus Katz, M.A. (Western esotericism) Learn to live a Transformative life t

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The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy 9781442681071

If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this

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Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England 9780812291889

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the

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The Alchemical Virgin Mary in the Religious and Political Context of the Renaissance [1 ed.] 9781443893565, 9781443855754

This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by m

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Terence between late antiquity and the age of printing: illustration, commentary and performance 9789004289499, 9004289496

Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing investigates Medieval and Early Renaissance reception of Terence

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