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Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time
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705042Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Timehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/prophecy-alchemy-and-the-end-of-time-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/209872/0ef4decc-d911-4f48-862e-394417613747.jpg?v=638744408451370000592658MXNColumbia University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the last days were coming; the apocalypse was near. Deemed insane by the Christian church, Rupescissa had spent more than a decade confined to prisons-in one case wrapped in chains and locked under a staircase-yet ill treatment could not silence the friars apocalyptic message.</p><p>Religious figures who preached the end times were hardly rare in the late Middle Ages, but Rupescissas teachings were unique. He claimed that knowledge of the natural world, and alchemy in particular, could act as a defense against the plagues and wars of the last days. His melding of apocalyptic prophecy and quasi-scientific inquiry gave rise to a new genre of alchemical writing and a novel cosmology of heaven and earth. Most important, the friars research represented a remarkable convergence between science and religion.</p><p>In order to understand scientific knowledge today, Leah DeVun asks that we revisit Rupescissas life and the critical events of his age-the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the Avignon Papacy-through his eyes. Rupescissa treated alchemy as medicine (his work was the conceptual forerunner of pharmacology) and represented the emerging technologies and views that sought to combat famine, plague, religious persecution, and war. The advances he pioneered, along with the exciting strides made by his contemporaries, shed critical light on later developments in medicine, pharmacology, and chemistry.</p>...703099Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time592658https://www.gandhi.com.mx/prophecy-alchemy-and-the-end-of-time-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/209872/0ef4decc-d911-4f48-862e-394417613747.jpg?v=638744408451370000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20099780231519342_W3siaWQiOiI2NjFmODhiNy04MGRiLTRjYTYtOGQzYi02Y2E5NjYyYjMzM2YiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjY5NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjcwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjYyNywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDYtMDNUMjE6MDA6MDBaIiwidG8iOiIyMDI1LTA2LTMwVDIzOjU5OjU5WiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9LHsiaWQiOiI1ZWJkNTBhNy1kZDY1LTQ2MmMtOTg2OC1lZDQ0ZTQ0MjVhMmEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjY1OCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjY2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjU5MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780231519342_<p>In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the last days were coming; the apocalypse was near. Deemed insane by the Christian church, Rupescissa had spent more than a decade confined to prisons-in one case wrapped in chains and locked under a staircase-yet ill treatment could not silence the friars apocalyptic message.</p><p>Religious figures who preached the end times were hardly rare in the late Middle Ages, but Rupescissas teachings were unique. He claimed that knowledge of the natural world, and alchemy in particular, could act as a defense against the plagues and wars of the last days. His melding of apocalyptic prophecy and quasi-scientific inquiry gave rise to a new genre of alchemical writing and a novel cosmology of heaven and earth. Most important, the friars research represented a remarkable convergence between science and religion.</p><p>In order to understand scientific knowledge today, Leah DeVun asks that we revisit Rupescissas life and the critical events of his age-the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the Avignon Papacy-through his eyes. Rupescissa treated alchemy as medicine (his work was the conceptual forerunner of pharmacology) and represented the emerging technologies and views that sought to combat famine, plague, religious persecution, and war. The advances he pioneered, along with the exciting strides made by his contemporaries, shed critical light on later developments in medicine, pharmacology, and chemistry.</p>...9780231519342_Columbia University Presslibro_electonico_dd24a22e-16bc-3b8d-81a7-749d624f5a07_9780231519342;9780231519342_9780231519342Leah DeVunInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-743fd095-1eed-411b-82ef-06d5440a083b.epub2009-03-03T00:00:00+00:00Columbia University Press