Download or read book Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe written by Claire L. Carlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alchemical Poetry 1575 1700 written by Robert M. Schuler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.

Download or read book Secrets of Nature written by William R. Newman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.

Download or read book The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form written by Agnes Arber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1950, this monograph on the morphology of flowering plants explores the relationship between philosophy and botany.

Download or read book Dictionary of Gnosis Western Esotericism written by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive reference work to cover the entire domain of “Gnosis and Western Esotericism” from Late Antiquity to the present. It contains critical discussions of all its major authors, currents and manifestations, from Gnosticism to the New Age.This one volume edition is an unabridged version of the two volume edition published in 2005.

Download or read book Epidemics and the Modern World written by Mitchell L. Hammond and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epidemics and the Modern World uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to explore the impact of diseases on society from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Joseph d Arimathie written by Robert (de Boron) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fasciculus Chemicus written by Arthur Dee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

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Download or read book Sanguis Naturae written by Christopher Grummet and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Grummet wrote this work in the late 17th century. Subtitled, "Manifest Declaration of the Sanguine and Solar Concealed Liquor of Nature," it was selected by Hans W. Nintzel for inclusion in the R.A.M.S. Library. There are a few footnotes in this volume that are attributed to "D.H." Although I have seen footnotes under these same initials in other R.A.M.S. works, the person's identity remains unknown. This Volume of The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy also includes "Universal and Particular Processes" by John de Monte Snyder. A much longer work by Monte Snyder is available as The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy Volume 31, "The Metamorphosis of the Planets." The symbols in this short work may be more easily understood using R.A.M.S. Volume 21, "Alchemical Symbols."

Download or read book The Ordinal of Alchemy written by Thomas Norton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: