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Faith, medical alchemy and natural philosophy : Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer and the Hartlib Circle / J.T. Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, J. T. (John T.)
- Series:
- History of medicine in context
- The history of medicine in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moriaen, Johann.
- Hartlib, Samuel, -1662--Friends and associates.
- Hartlib, Samuel, -1662.
- Alchemy--History--17th century.
- Philosophy--History--17th century.
- Alchemists--Netherlands--Biography.
- Alchemists.
- Intellectual life.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Alchemy.
- Friends and associates.
- Netherlands.
- Western Europe.
- Europe, Western--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1998.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Johann Moriaen: A Biographical Sketch
- Chapter 1 Servant of the Church 3
- Origins and Upbringing 3
- Under the Cross 5
- Mystics and Utopists 15
- Wanderjahre 21
- Chapter 2 Servant of God 37
- In a Free Country 37
- Moriaen and the Jews 41
- Technological Exchanges 48
- The Godly Entrepreneur 58
- Chapter 3 An Intelligencer's Ethos 75
- Public and Private 75
- 'Without Partialitie': The Irenic Ideal 81
- Part 2 Universal Wisdom
- Chapter 4 Panaceas of the Soul: Comenius and the Dream of Universal Knowledge 101
- Origins of the Pansophic Project 101
- The Notion of Pansophy: Beyond Bacon and Alsted 105
- 'To Leave No Problem Unsolved': The New Mathematics as a Model for Pansophy 112
- The Collection in the Netherlands 121
- Comenius's Visits to England and the Netherlands 127
- Chapter 5 Curing Creation: Alchemy and Spirituality 151
- 'Ora et Labora': 'Pray and Labour' 151
- Chemistry versus Alchemy 159
- The Key to Creation 165
- Chapter 6 Universal Medicines: Johann Rudolph Glauber and his Reception in England 183
- 'Paracelsus of the Seventeenth Century' or 'German Robert Boyle'? 183
- Heyday in the Netherlands 186
- Flight into Germany 191
- Last Years in Amsterdam 196
- Glauber's Reception in the Hartlib Circle 198
- Chapter 7 The Dawn of Wisdom 217
- Benjamin Worsley's Alchemical Mission to the Netherlands 217
- Moriaen and the 'Great Work' 226
- The Gate of Things 232.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840142820
- OCLC:
- 40675483
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