Alchemy's origins in Late Antiquity : philosophical crafts and crafty philosophers [videorecording] / [lecture by Lawrence M. Principe ; sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Principe, Lawrence. Alchemy's origins in Late Antiquity : philosophical crafts and crafty philosophers [videorecording] / [lecture by Lawrence M. Principe ; sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

Alchemy's origins in Late Antiquity : philosophical crafts and crafty philosophers [videorecording] / [lecture by Lawrence M. Principe ; sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770382834

Although alchemy is better known as a phenomenon of the Middle Ages and early modern period, its origins actually lie in Late Antiquity. In the Hellenized Egypt of the third century AD, ancient Egyptian craft knowledge and traditions encountered Greek natural philosophy. This union resulted in the emergence of alchemy, a subject balanced between theory and practice, between material production and speculation about the hidden ways of nature. In this lecture, science historian Lawrence M. Principe of Johns Hopkins University explores the fragments of texts and objects that reveal the vigorous beginning of the "Noble Art" in the waning years of the classical world.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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