The Alchemy of Light: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration

The Alchemy of Light: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration
ISBN-10
9004116907
ISBN-13
9789004116900
Category
Body, Mind & Spirit
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Urszula Szulakowska

Description

This re-examination of alchemical engravings of the late Renaissance uses an innovative semiotic method in analysing their geometrical and optical rhetorical devices. The images are contextualised within contemporary metaphysics, specifically, the discourse of light, and in Protestant reformism.

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