The Alchemy of Light

The Alchemy of Light

Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration

by Urszula Szulakowska

246 pages· ISBN 9789004116900
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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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