Transmuting Sericon
Alchemy as "Practical Exegesis" in Early Modern England
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3924905 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jennifer M Rampling (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2014 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 19-34 |
| Data de publicação | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/678094 |
| PMID | 26103745 |
| OpenAlex | W2043772683 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 12 |
An influential strand of English alchemy was the pursuit of the "vegetable stone," a medicinal elixir popularized by George Ripley (d. ca. 1490), made from a metallic substance, "sericon." Yet the identity of sericon was not fixed, undergoing radical reinterpretation between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries as Ripley's lead-based practice was eclipsed by new methods, notably the antimonial approach of George Starkey (1628-65). Tracing "sericonian" alchemy over 250 years, I show how alchemists fed their practical findings back into textual accounts, creating a "feedback loop" in which the authority of past adepts was maintained by exegetical manipulations--a process that I term "practical exegesis
Aesthetics · Alchemy · Art · Art history · Exegesis · Fifteenth · George (robot · Literature · Reinterpretation · Classics · Historical Philosophy and Science · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,56 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |