Allegory, Alchemy, and The Image As Structure of Knowledge

[Paul Ferguson]

"“Unfolded Worlds: Allegory, Alchemy, and The Image As Structure of Knowledge In Early Modern Northern European Scientific Books” focuses on alchemical book illustration. It places the corpus of alchemical images 1450-1650, found as both print and manuscript in significant British collections, within the broader scope of the intellectual history of Northern European books. I argue that alchemical book images do the essential work of making humanist arguments about matter as allegory, and transmitting those arguments across space and time."

https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1624?ln=en