Jennifer Rampling is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the history of medieval and early modern alchemy. She is Editor of Ambix, Her books include, The Making of English Alchemy, for Synthesis (University of Chicago Press), and writing Alchemy: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press.
Peter M. Jones is Fellow and Librarian at King's College, Cambridge, where he teaches the history of medieval medicine. He is also a Principal Investigator on the Generation to Reproduction project. His books include, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts (British Library) and De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgia by John Arderne; from a new digital version of the Stockholm roll (Stockholm: Hagstromer Biblioteket).
发表于2024-12-23
Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and pre-modern medicine, this volume reveals how physicians practiced alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. It shows how, besides sharing knowledge, physicians and alchemists engaged in fierce polemics, adapted one another's techniques, and united against common foes. Whether appropriating medical knowledge or defining themselves in opposition to it, alchemical practitioners engaged continually with the practice, theory, and language of medicine.
Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书