The Alchemy of Light
Geometry and Optics in Late Renaissance Alchemical Illustration
Biographical note
Urszula Szulakowska is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Bretton Hall College (University of Leeds). She has published many scholarly papers on medieval and Renaissance alchemical illustration in journals such as Ambix, Chrysopoeia, Acta Historiae Artium and Cauda Pavonis.
Readership
Would interest those concerned with intellectual history, Renaissance theology and religious movements, the history of hermeticism, occultism and alchemy, as well as Renaissance art and science.
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