Faith, medical alchemy, and natural philosophy : Johann Moriaen, Reformed intelligencer and the Hartlib circle /: Johann Moriaen, Reformed intelligencer and the Hartlib circle. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: J.T. Young.
• Authors: Young, J. T (John T.)
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Foreword; Table of Contents; Part One: Johann Moriaen: A Biographical Sketch; Chapter One: Servant of the Church; Origins and Upbringing; Under the Cross; Mystics and Utopists; Wanderjahre; Chapter Two: Servant of God; In a Free Country; Moriaen and the Jews; Technological Exchanges; The Godly Entrepreneur; Chapter Three: An Intelligencer's Ethos; Public and Private; 'Without Partialitie': The Irenic Ideal; Part Two: Universal Wisdom Chapter Four: Panaceas of the Soul: Comenius and the Dream of Universal KnowledgeOrigins of the Pansophic Project; The Notion of Pansophy: Beyond Bacon and Alsted; 'To Leave No Problem Unsolved': The New Mathematics as a Model for Pansophy; The Collection in the Netherlands; Comenius's Visits to England and the Netherlands; Chapter Five: Curing Creation: Alchemy and Spirituality; 'Ora et Labora': 'Pray and Labour'; Chemistry versus Alchemy; The Key to Creation; Chapter Six: Universal Medicines: Johann Rudolph Glauber and his Reception in England 'Paracelsus of the Seventeenth Century' or German Robert Boyle'?Heyday in the Netherlands; Flight into Germany; Last Years in Amsterdam; Glauber's Reception in the Hartlib Circle; Chapter Seven: The Dawn of Wisdom; Benjamin Worsley's Alchemical Mission to the Netherlands; Moriaen and the 'Great Work; The Gate of Things; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 540.112092 193; Alchemists -- Netherlands -- Biography; Clergy -- Netherlands -- Biography; Alchemy -- History -- 17th century; Philosophy -- History -- 17th century; Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; SCIENCE / Chemistry / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern; HISTORY / General; Friendship; Alchemists; Alchemy; Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Clergy; Philosophy; Netherlands; Electronic books; Electronic books; Biography; History; Friends and associates
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429459917; 0429459912; 0429862148; 9780429862144; 9780429862137; 9780429862120; 0429862121
• Related ISBNs: 042986213X; 1138625434; 9781138625433
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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