Alchymia in Andreas Libavius (1540-1616)(Part 1) Victor. Arturo.Cabello. Reyes. '' For Libavius, alchemy( or chemistry) was a Divine Art... He defined alchemy as the perfection of magisteries'and the extraaaaction of pure essences from mixed substances by separation.'' (Allen G. Debus, The French Paracelsians, p.61) He was born in Halle in 1540 and acquired his medical degree in Jena where he was professor of poetry and history (1586-1591). He was possibly the first to prepare 'stannic chloride and ammonium sulfate', the latter used today, for fertiliser purposes in agriculture. He was also the inventor of several dry methods of laboratory analysis. Stay as a doctor in Rothenburg was controversial and his chemical ideas were very complex. Without a doubt, he considered himself to be = 'rational iatrochemist'. On the other hand, he was a tremendous objector and critic of Rosicrucian, mystical and occult ideas within the research field of s...
Alchymia en Andreas Libavius(parte II-Final) Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.🌹 ''It should suffice to recall the Real Founder of Chemistry as a scientific and academic subject, Andreas Libavius(c.1560-1616), firm believer in transmutation.'' (Walter Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont, p.204) El maestro Robert Fludd (1574-1637) entra en debate ideológico con Andreas Libavius=(German Lutheran chemist), en relación a ideas Rosacruces y sus doctrinas del macrocosmos-microcosmos, la armonía celeste, magia y Kabbalah. (Apologia Compendaria(1616) En efecto, la simbología artística de la obra de Libavius se fundamenta en el conocimiento estricto del alquimista educado, que es creyente de la transmutación y posée un sistema ''práctico medicinal basado en chemistry''. Sus ideas y lenguaje pulcro lo usa para atacar a los Roscruces(los estudia a fondo) y reclamar que era una Fraternidad de herejes, sediciosos y magos diabólicos. (Analysis of the Confessionis Fra...