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Chaucer the alchemist

physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination

by Alexander N Gabrovsky

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard matched “alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “alchemist” in the title, “Alchemy” in the description, “Alchemy” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “alchemy”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “alchemist”· in title
    • “Alchemy”· in description
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
    • “alchemist”· in edition title

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physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination

First edition.

xviii, 291 pages ; 23 cm.

2015Palgrave MacmillanEnglish
  • 9781137541345
  • 1137541342
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