This results in a re-assessment of the Rosicrucian movement which challenges the existing historiography and problematises the character of the movement. Their alchemical theosophy is contextualised within Protestant reformism of the 1590s to 1620s, specifically that of Valentin Weigel and Johannes Arndt. From the publisher: "This study concerns the late Renaissance metaphysics of light in its adoption to a Paracelsian alchemical context by John Dee, Heinrich Khunrath, Michael Maier and Robert Fludd. Volume X of the "Symbola et Emblemata, Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism" series. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. The Alchemy of Light: Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration. SZULAKOWSKA, Urszula, Editor, Various authors.
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