Chymiatry: Hájek’s Position.

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Chymiatry: Hájek’s Position.
Original language description
In Prague, Hájek was in contact with a circle of foreign alchemists, whom he accommodated in his house. Reports survive of transmutations that were to be carried out there. Hájek conveyed news of these events to Emperor Rudolf II. As is clear from his correspondence with Rheticus and Dudith, he was interested in the work of Paracelsus and in other new currents of medicine (e.g., Fernel). However, he approached the new f indings critically and combined them with traditional Galenic medicine. The surviving correspondence with Tycho Brahe is important evidence of these interests and shows that Tycho considered Hájek an expert in chymiatry (medically oriented alchemy). As Hájek got older, he became more sceptical of chymiatry and the possibilities of its implementation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526-1600. Bohemian Polymath of the Rudolfine Period.
ISBN
9789048565801
Number of pages of the result
35
Pages from-to
195-229
Number of pages of the book
294
Publisher name
Amsterdam University Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam
UT code for WoS chapter
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