An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!
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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Folge vom 21.01.2024HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
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Folge vom 07.01.2024HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert FluddOur last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of magic and Rosicrucianism.
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Folge vom 24.12.2023HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and MagnetismThe cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.
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Folge vom 10.12.2023HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection - Theories of VisionChanging ideas about eyesight, light, mirror images, and refraction – and the skeptical worries they may have inspired.