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Testing the New Historiography of Alchemy (Kenelm Digby) - Paul Ferguson - 10-12-2023

"In the last two decades, a new framework for the study of alchemy, challenging the older Jungian views, has been taking shape by the efforts of two American
historians of science, Lawrence Principe and William Newman. The present paper intends to test this new framework through a case study of a 17th century
English natural philosopher named Kenelm Digby. In the light of my results, the new metanarrative of alchemy draws a false picture of the discipline, as alchemy was a complex philosophical system with its own religious and cultural connotations."

Testing the New Historiography of Alchemy: the Case of Kenelm Digby
Frigyes Hausz
SZTE-BTK Angol szak
Történettudományi Szekció, 2 nd prize, 2009

http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/71384/1/english_and_american_otdk_2007-2011_045-060.pdf