Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England

by Bruce Janacek

Book Overview

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271050144
• ISBN13: 9780271050140
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"