Alchemy

Merianos, Gerasimos

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“…En cualquier caso, es precisamente esta orientación interdisciplinar la que denota un interés intelectual en dichos procesos, y distingue la alquimia, incluso en su vertiente más técnica, del ejercicio artesanal. El alquimista se interesa por el porqué del proceso, las propiedades de las sustancias que lo 5 Sobre la definición de alquimia y un breve plano expositivo de su historia, vid., e.g., PRINCIPE (2013: 1-7), MERIANOS (2017), MARTELLI (2019: 11-44 Tenemos noticias de autores anteriores, pero rara vez algo más que un nombre o el título de una obra. Vid.…”

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El encanto de la química. Las recetas alquímicas de PGM XII Y LA “Alquimia de Simposio”

Cesteros¹

2020

Ablanathanalba Magia, Cultura Y Sociedad en El Mundo Antiguo.

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El encanto de la química. Las recetas alquímicas de PGM XII Y LA “Alquimia de Simposio”

Cesteros¹

2020

Ablanathanalba Magia, Cultura Y Sociedad en El Mundo Antiguo.

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Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy

Roberts

2022

Isis

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This essay analyzes the known evidence for Byzantine engagement with what are conventionally termed "alchemical" texts, theories, and practices of the Islamic world. Much of the evidence is difficult to date. Nevertheless, the aggregated direct, indirect, and circumstantial evidence suggests at least some engagement by Greek-speaking scholars throughout the Middle Ages. This engagement took various forms, from the use of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish terminology to the adaptation of whole Arabic treatises in Greek. Sometimes the Byzantine texts emphasize their Islamicate sources, and sometimes they do not mention these sources at all. The resulting picture is still fragmentary, but it indicates that medieval Greek-speaking scholars were active in the circulation of chemical knowledge and techniques in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Byzantium, therefore, should no longer be left out of research into long-term patterns in the history of science.T he extent to which Byzantine scholars engaged with alchemical texts of the Islamic world is largely unknown. This is due in the first place to the infancy in which research on Byzantine alchemy finds itself. 1 Surviving Arabic alchemical texts are much more numerous but only marginally better studied. 2 On top of this, historians of Byzantine and Arabic alchemy alike must work with the slippery term "alchemy" itself, which shifts in meaning from metallurgical recipes, Alexandre Roberts is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on Byzantine and medieval Middle Eastern intellectual history. He is the author of Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl (California, 2020). His current work examines theories of chemistry and their repercussions in Byzantine and Middle Eastern culture.

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Innovation and Byzantine Alchemy in Context: The Constantinian Solidus and the Chrysopoetic Goal

Merianos

2024

De medio aevo

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The concept of innovation has not been thoroughly explored in the context of Byzantine science, much less so concerning Byzantine alchemy. This article argues that persisting historiographical biases depicting Byzantium as a stagnant culture also influence perceptions of Byzantine science as anti-innovative. Building on recent advancements in the study of innovation in Byzantine culture broadly, this article first conducts a preliminary examination of the relationship between science and innovation in Byzantium, revealing intriguing dynamics between the concepts of “tradition” and “innovation”. Next, it investigates a case study of innovation in Byzantine alchemy, namely how a monetary and economic innovation, the introduction of the solidus by Constantine the Great, likely influenced the perception of alchemy as primarily a chrysopoetic art. In essence, it explores how an external innovation can impact a scientific field, potentially leading to innovative conceptions and change within it.

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Alchemy

Cited by 3 publications

References 385 publications

El encanto de la química. Las recetas alquímicas de PGM XII Y LA “Alquimia de Simposio”

El encanto de la química. Las recetas alquímicas de PGM XII Y LA “Alquimia de Simposio”

Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy

Innovation and Byzantine Alchemy in Context: The Constantinian Solidus and the Chrysopoetic Goal

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