Tara Nummedal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4877190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Nummedal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Nummedal |
| SIGNATURE | NUMMEDAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2215-9288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alchemical Bodies
I n the past decade or so, we have come to understand more and more about women involved in alchemy in early modern Europe.Thanks to a number of published and ongoing research projects, we now know that women were patrons, authors, and practitioners, as well as laboratory assistants and managers.We also know that they read, excerpted, and collected alchemical knowledge in household collections of recipes, known as receipt books. 1 This important …
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrat…
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy
571 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009) 555-598 Bruce T. Moran, Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2007), pp. vi+344, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0 88135 395 7. How and when did chemistry emerge as a distinct field, its practitioners clearly iden- tifiable among the scores of alchemists, distillers, physicians, apothecaries, m…
Paracelsus
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The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom
Urszula Szulakowska. The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom: Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation. Leiden : Brill, 2006. xii + 180 pp. + 54 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $155. ISBN: 90-04-15025-0. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Distilling Knowledge
Reviewed by: Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution Tara E. Nummedal Bruce T. Moran . Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 210 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-674-01495-2). For the past half-century, historians have struggled to explain alchemy's place in the scientific revolution. In a series of detailed studies, scholars have explored the question…
The Philosophers' Game
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrat…
The Philosophers' Game
Distilling Knowledge
Reviewed by: Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution Tara E. Nummedal Bruce T. Moran . Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 210 pp. Ill. $24.95 (0-674-01495-2). For the past half-century, historians have struggled to explain alchemy's place in the scientific revolution. In a series of detailed studies, scholars have explored the question…
The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom
Urszula Szulakowska. The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom: Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation. Leiden : Brill, 2006. xii + 180 pp. + 54 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $155. ISBN: 90-04-15025-0. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy
571 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009) 555-598 Bruce T. Moran, Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2007), pp. vi+344, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0 88135 395 7. How and when did chemistry emerge as a distinct field, its practitioners clearly iden- tifiable among the scores of alchemists, distillers, physicians, apothecaries, m…
Paracelsus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy
This essay considers the implications of a shift in focus from ideas to practices in the history of alchemy. On the one hand, it is argued, this new attention to practice highlights the diversity of ways that early modern Europeans engaged alchemy, ranging from the literary to the entrepreneurial and artisanal, as well as the broad range of social and cultural spaces that alchemists inhabited. At the same time, however, recent work has demonstrat…
Alchemical Bodies
I n the past decade or so, we have come to understand more and more about women involved in alchemy in early modern Europe.Thanks to a number of published and ongoing research projects, we now know that women were patrons, authors, and practitioners, as well as laboratory assistants and managers.We also know that they read, excerpted, and collected alchemical knowledge in household collections of recipes, known as receipt books. 1 This important …
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