Search Results for chymistry

... as chymistry, these writers probe the boundaries of art and nature, the mechanical and liberal arts, and the ordinary and alchemical. Further, because of readers’ familiarity and proximity to linen and paper, the material book offered proof of chymistry's usefulness, grounded in the tacit knowledge of daily...

... in the Literature of Late Medieval England . Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. viii, 333 pp., 4 figs. $69.95. Principe, Lawrence M. The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences . Synthesis. Chicago...

..., imagi- nation was the faculty causing man foolishly to look outside himself for governance or to “build castles in the air,” mistakenly believing “God is beyond the creation” (Winstanley, Law of Freedom, 348). The appeal of transmuting fiery images from “chymistry” to those writers — medical...

... for them to attain a true knowledge of their own hearts. This, too, was one of the accustomed strategies of Satan, who, according to Petto, knew “a great deale of Chymistry.” It was the Word of God that would enable would-be believers to discover this “most glistering counterfeit coyne.” Just as a sabine...