Chapter 6: “If they are not pages that cure, they are pages that teach how to cure”: The Diffusion of Chemical Remedies in Early Modern Spain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Chapter 1: Crafting the Chemical Interpretation of Nature: The Work of Allen G. Debus 1
6. Part One: Curious Practices and Practices of Curiosity
7. Chapter 2: Johann Hayne and Paracelsian Praxis: Chemical Physiology as a Link between Semeiotics and Therapeutics 19
8. Chapter 3: Andreas Libavius and the Art of Chymia: Words, Works, Precepts, and Social Practices 59
9. Chapter 4: Chymical Curiosities and Trusted Testimonials in the Journal of the Leopoldina Academy of Curiosi 79
10. Chapter 5: Phlogiston and Chemical Principles: The Development and Formulation of Georg Ernst Stahl’s Principle of Inflammability 101
11. Part Two: Regional Contexts and Communities of Texts
12. Chapter 6: “If they are not pages that cure, they are pages that teach how to cure”: The Diffusion of Chemical Remedies in Early Modern Spain 133
13. Chapter 7: Prescriptions of Alchemy: Two Austrian Medical Doctors and Their Alchemical Manuscripts 159
14. Chapter 8: The Chemical Philosophy and Kabbalah: Pantheus, Khunrath, Croll, and the Treasures of the Oratory and the Laboratory 186
15. Part Three: Evaluations and Perceptions
16. Chapter 9: Paracelsus on the Sidereal Powers: Revisiting the Historiographical Debate between Walter Pagel and Kurt Goldammer 209
17. Chapter 10: John Dee at 400: Still an Enigma 226
18. Chapter 11: On the Imagery of Nature in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods 250
19. Contributors 294
20. Index 297