An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge

Author : Georgiana D. Hedesan

Hardback

Published : Friday 6 May 2016

ISBN : 9781472469168

Price : €163.80

Description

History of science credits the Flemish physician, alchemist and philosopher Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) for his contributions to the development of chemistry and medicine. Revealing Van Helmont as an original thinker who sought to produce a post-Scholastic synthesis of religion and natural philosophy, Georgiana Hedesan reconstructs his quest for universal knowledge as it emerges from the text of the Ortus medicinae. Published after Van Helmonts death by his son, the work can best be understood as a compilation of finished and unfinished treatises, the historical product of a life unsettled by religious persecution and personal misfortune.

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