Toleration of Alchemists as a Political Question: Transmutation, Disputation, and Early Modern Scholarship on Alchemy (2007)
Chang, Ku-Ming (Kevin) (Author)
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 54
Pages: 245--273
In July 1702, Johann Franz Buddeus chaired a disputation with the title, "A Political Question: Whether Alchemists Should Be Tolerated in the Republic," in the wake of the reported transmutational success of Johann Friedrich Böttger just a few months earlier. This paper begins with this context, and then examines Buddeus's thesis, analyses its elemental notions, elaborates the major themes that underlay his thesis, and reviews the contemporary responses to this thesis. It also investigates a vast body of literature that constituted Buddeus's sources, and surveys five kinds of publications that characterised the early modern scholarship on alchemy.
...MoreDescription On a 1702 disputation chaired by German Lutheran Johann Franz Buddeus after a report that Johann Friedrich Böttger achieved a successful alchemical transmutation.
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