Latin Alchemical Literature of Czech Provenance

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This volume consists of 7 papers presented at the conference on Latin Alchemical Literature of Czech Provenance. The conference, organized by the Centre for Renaissance Texts (CRT) was held on 16 and 17 October 2014 at Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Contents: John A. Norris, ""Agricola's Bermannus: A Dialogue of Mineralogical Humanism and Empiricism in the Mines of Jáchymov"" Martin Žemla, ""Valentin Weigel and Alchemy"" Ivo Purš, ""Perspective, Vision and Dream: Notes on the Plate Oratory-Laboratory in Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae"" Jakub Hlaváček, ""Cosmological and Alchemical Aspects of the Body, Soul and Spirit Triad in H. Khunrath's Work Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae"" György E. Szönyi...