Lenke, Nils (Author)
Roudet, Nicolas (Author)
Tilton, Hereward (Author)
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 61, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-47
The authors provide a transcription, translation, and evaluation of nine newly discovered letters from the alchemist Michael Maier (1568--1622) to Gebhardt Johann von Alvensleben (1576--1631), a noble landholder in the vicinity of Magdeburg. Stemming from the final year of his life, this correspondence casts new light on Maier's biography, detailing his efforts to secure patronage amid the financial crisis of the early Thirty Years' War. While his ill-fated quest to perfect potable gold continued to form the central focus of his patronage suits, Maier also offered his services in several arts that he had condemned in his printed works, namely astrology and supernatural magic. Remarks concerning his previously unknown acquaintance with Heinrich Khunrath call for a re-evaluation of Maier's negotiation of the discursive boundaries between Lutheran orthodoxy and Paracelsianism. The letters also reveal Maier's substantial contribution to a work previously ascribed solely to the English alchemist Francis Anthony.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Osler, Margaret J.;
(2000)
Rethinking the scientific revolution
(/isis/citation/CBB000110137/)
Book
Greyerz, Kaspar von;
Pavlovic, Milica;
(2010)
Religion und Naturwissenschaften im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
(/isis/citation/CBB001033567/)
Thesis
Yanan Qizhi;
(2020)
Dream Culture in Early Modern Lutheranism, 1530-1730
(/isis/citation/CBB358204226/)
Article
Hiro Hirai;
(2021)
Daniel Sennert, Chymistry, and Theological Debates
(/isis/citation/CBB126568830/)
Book
Didier Kahn;
(2017)
L'alchimie à livres ouverts: En quête des secrets de la matière: livres et manuscrits du XVIe au XXe siècle
(/isis/citation/CBB851768762/)
Book
Kjellgren, Martin;
(2011)
Taming the Prophets: Astrology, Orthodoxy, and the World of God in Early Modern Sweden
(/isis/citation/CBB001221187/)
Chapter
Barreca, Francesco;
Boner, Patrick J.;
(2013)
A Perfect Similitude: Science and Politics in Kepler's Dedicatory Letter to De stella nova and the Astronomia nova
(/isis/citation/CBB001201008/)
Book
Mark A. Waddell;
(2021)
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB381016841/)
Book
Kassell, Lauren;
(2005)
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman---Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician
(/isis/citation/CBB000501504/)
Article
Maza, Clelia Martinez;
(2007)
La defensa Católica y el uso de la astrología grecorromana como pauta de corrupción religiosa
(/isis/citation/CBB000831594/)
Book
Purš, Ivo;
Karpenko, Vladimír;
(2011)
Alchymie a Rudolf II: Hledání tajemství pírody ve stední Evrop v 16. a 17. století
(/isis/citation/CBB001201928/)
Article
Brendan Dooley;
(2008)
Narrazione e verità: don Giovanni de' Medici e Galileo
(/isis/citation/CBB479828025/)
Article
Forshaw, Peter J.;
(2008)
“Paradoxes, Absurdities, and Madness”: Conflict over Alchemy, Magic and Medicine in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath
(/isis/citation/CBB000850534/)
Book
Andreas Lerch;
(2015)
Scientia astrologiae: Der Diskurs über die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Astrologie und die lateinischen Lehrbücher 1470–1610
(/isis/citation/CBB475633967/)
Chapter
Daxelmüller, Christoph;
(2006)
Magie zwischen Religion und Wissenschaft am Hof Rudolfs II von Habsburg in Prag
(/isis/citation/CBB001020505/)
Book
Gatti, Hilary;
(2002)
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB000301742/)
Thesis
Andrew W. Sparling;
(2018)
Providence and Alchemy: Paracelsus on How Knowledge Unfolded, Matter Developed, and Bodies Might Be Perfected
(/isis/citation/CBB227133430/)
Article
Klein, Joel A.;
(2015)
Daniel Sennert, The Philosophical Hen, and The Epistolary Quest for a (Nearly-) Universal Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB001202176/)
Book
Ostorero, Martine;
Modestin, Georg;
Utz Tremp, Kathrin;
(2010)
Chasses aux sorcières et démonologie: entre discours et pratiques (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)
(/isis/citation/CBB001200354/)
Book
Didier Kahn;
(2016)
Le fixe et le volatil: chimie et alchimie, de Paracelse à Lavoisier
(/isis/citation/CBB308791400/)
MHNH (Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas)
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Be the first to comment!