Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 339 Seiten, Gewicht: 735 g
Reihe: Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences
Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary by B. Obrist
Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 339 Seiten, Gewicht: 735 g
Reihe: Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences
ISBN: 978-90-04-09288-4
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
So far, little clearly datable evidence has emerged on the teaching and on the dissemination of theories on the transmutation of metals in its earlier mediaeval phase, the 13th century. This document points out that they had been taught and commented upon in lectures on Aristotle's Meteorologica shortly after the middle of the 13th century. It also testifies to the fact that observational evidence was included in discussions at university level. The Liber secretorum alchimie is thus the (at times rather distorted) echo of a lecture on Aristotle's writings, certainly not unlike the commentaries written by Albert the Great.
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