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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Thomas Tymme and Natural Philosophy: Schism and Alchemical Unity in the Book of Nature
2 Robert Fludd, Natural Theology, and the Alchemical Debate of 1623
3 Francis Bacon, Alchemy, and the Great Redemption
4 Catholic Natural Philosophy: Alchemy and the Revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby
5 Elias Ashmole: The Collection and Culmination of Alchemical Thought
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“What emerges from Janacek’s treatment of his sources is carefully drawn representation of the many ways in which alchemy provided a language and a method for understanding and ultimately restoring order in a profoundly disordered world. This study demonstrates how the study of learned occultism provides a profitable means for lifting the veil on a critical but complex period in early modern history.”
—Wm. Bradford Smith, Sixteenth Century Journal
