Article ID: CBB001252159

Transmission and Transmutation: George Ripley and the Place of English Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (2012)

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Rampling, Jennifer M. (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 17, no. 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 477-499


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of special issue “Alchemy on the Fringes: Communication and Practice at the Peripheries of Early Modern Europe”
Language: English

Continental authors and editors often sought to ground alchemical writing within a long-established, coherent and pan-European tradition, appealing to the authority of adepts from different times and places. Greek, Latin and Islamic alchemists met both in person and between the covers of books, in actual, fictional or coincidental encounters: a trope utilised in Michael Maier's Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum (1617). This essay examines how works attributed to an English authority, George Ripley (d. c. 1490), were received in central Europe and incorporated into continental compendia. Placed alongside works by the philosophers of other nations, Ripley's writings helped affirm the unity and truth of alchemy in defiance of its critics. His continental editors were therefore concerned not only with the provenance of manuscripts and high-quality exemplars, but by a range of other factors, including the desire to suppress controversial material, intervene in contemporary polemics, and defend their art. In the resulting compilations, the vertical axis of alchemy's long, diachronic tradition may be compared to the horizontal plane of pan-European alchemy.

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Authors & Contributors
Rampling, Jennifer M.
Kahn, Didier
Pfeiffer, Judith
Hauko Wakabayashi
Roberts, Alexandre M.
Kenneth R. Robinson
Concepts
Transmission of texts
Alchemy
Transmission of ideas
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Translations
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
15th century
16th century
Medieval
17th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
England
Middle and Near East
Persia (Iran)
Ottoman Empire
Tabrīz (Iran)
Eastern Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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