Author: Elias Ashmole
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: brittannicum, chemicum, theatrum
Number of Pages: 516
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602068941
ISBN-13: 9781602068940

"To All Ingeniously Elaborate Students, In the most Divine Mysteries of Hermetique Learning." Or so British politician and Freemason ELIAS ASHMOLE (1617-1692) dedicated this curious artifact of the esoteric and spiritual philosophy of alchemy. An avid collector of antiquaries and other oddities (they were, upon his death, bequeathed to Oxford University, which used them to found the Ashmolean Museum), Ashmole counted among his treasures volumes of metaphysical poems available only in private, and fiercely guarded, manuscripts. In 1652, though, he collected many of these writings in this hef

Author: Horace Smith James Smith
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: poetarum, theatrum, new, addresses, rejected
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-08-20
List price: $23.75
ISBN-10: 0554981831
ISBN-13: 9780554981833

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN ADDRESS WITHOUT A PHCENIX. BY S. T. P.1 " This was looked for at your hand, and this was balked." . What you Will. What stately vision mocks my waking sense ? Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment, hence ! Ha! is it real?—can my doubts be vain? It is, it is, and Drury lives again! Around each grateful veteran attends, Eager to rush and gratulate his friends, Friends whose kind

Authors:Schramm, Helmar, Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: century, theatrum, scientiarum, english, boundaries, cultural, art, science, architectonics, instruments
Number of Pages: 575
Published: 2008-01-16
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 3110202409
ISBN-13: 9783110202403

This volume presents a collection of original papers at the intersection of philosophy, the history of science, cultural and theatrical studies. Based on a series of case studies on the 17th century, it contributes to an understanding of the role played by instruments at the interface of science and art. The papers pursue the hypothesis that the development and construction of instruments make a substantive contribution to the opening of new fields of knowledge, the development of new cultural practices, but also to the delineation of particular genres, methods, and disciplines. This perspe