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Bridging Traditions explores the connections between apparently different zones of comprehension and experience magic and experiment, alchemy and mechanics, practical mathematics and geometrical mysticism, things earthy and heavenly, and especially science and medicine by focusing on points of intersection among alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian medical philosophy. In exploring the varieties of natural knowledge in the early modern era, the authors pay tribute to the work of Allen Debus, whose own endeavors cleared the way for scholars to examine subjects that were once snubbed as suitable only to the refuse heap of the history of science.

Karen Hunger Parshall is professor of history and mathematics at the University of Virginia. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, she is the author, among other books and editions, of James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World (2006), Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century (with Victor J. Katz, 2014), and Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (coedited with Paul H. Theerman, 1997). She was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 1996/97 and served from 1996 to 1999 as the editor-in-chief of Historia Mathematica.

Michael Thomson Walton took his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1979. He coedited, with Allen G. Debus, Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution (1998). He is the author of Medical Practitioners and Law in Fifteenth Century London (with Phyllis J. Walton, 2003); Genesis and the Chemical Philosophy: True Christian Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2011); and Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Germany (2012). Two of his articles, “John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica: Geometrical Cabala” and “Boyle and Newton on the Transmutation of Water and Air,” were reprinted in Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers from Ambix (edited by Allen G. Debus, 2004). Michael Walton died in August 2013.

Bruce Moran is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches courses in the history of science and early medicine. His general research interest is in the intersection of cultures, learned and lay, scribal and artisanal, Latinate and vernacular as they relate to the investigation of nature and the body in early modern Europe. Among many articles and books are Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (2005) and Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (2007). He has been a Dibner Distinguished Fellow in the history of science and technology at the Huntington Library (2010/11), and, most recently, a Gorden Cain Distinguished Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (2014).

Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Crafting the Chemical Interpretation of Nature: The Work of Allen G. Debus • Karen Hunger Parshall
Part One: Curious Practices and Practices of Curiosity
Chapter 2: Johann Hayne and Paracelsian Praxis: Chemical Physiology as a Link between Semeiotics and Therapeutics • Jole Shackelford
Chapter 3: Andreas Libavius and the Art of Chymia: Words, Works, Precepts, and Social Practices • Bruce T. Moran
Chapter 4: Chymical Curiosities and Trusted Testimonials in the Journal of the Leopoldina Academy of Curiosi • Margaret D. Garber
Chapter 5: Phlogiston and Chemical Principles: The Development and Formulation of Georg Ernst Stahl’s Principle of Inflammability • Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang
Part Two: Regional Contexts and Communities of Texts
Chapter 6: “If they are not pages that cure, they are pages that teach how to cure”: The Diffusion of Chemical Remedies in Early Modern Spain • Mar Rey Bueno
Chapter 7: Prescriptions of Alchemy: Two Austrian Medical Doctors and Their Alchemical Manuscripts • Anke Timmermann
Chapter 8: The Chemical Philosophy and Kabbalah: Pantheus, Khunrath, Croll, and the Treasures of the Oratory and the Laboratory • Michael T. Walton
Part Three: Evaluations and Perceptions
Chapter 9: Paracelsus on the Sidereal Powers: Revisiting the Historiographical Debate between Walter Pagel and Kurt Goldammer • Dane T. Daniel
Chapter 10: John Dee at 400: Still an Enigma • Nicholas H. Clulee
Chapter 11: On the Imagery of Nature in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods • Heinz Schott
Contributors
Index
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