The Sciant artifices in the Work of Albert the Great: Towards Two Kinds of Transmutation?

IF 0.5 2区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2022-03-23 DOI:10.1163/15733823-12340037

Athanasios Rinotas

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Abstract

A few decades ago, William Newman drew attention to the significance of the medieval alchemical debate over the possibility of transmuting metals, which was closely connected to the Avicennan phrase known as Sciant artifices. Newman pointed to Albert the Great (ca. 1200–1280) as one of the participants in this debate. While Newman has covered Albert’s engagement with this Avicennan dictum only partially, this paper aims to enrich our knowledge of this episode by examining a range of further sources concerning Albert’s approach to the Sciant artifices dictum, and thereby to provide a better insight into the role it played in the work of the Dominican master.

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阿尔伯特大帝作品中的科学技巧：走向两种突变？

几十年前，威廉·纽曼（William Newman）提请人们注意中世纪炼金术中关于转化金属可能性的辩论的重要性，这与阿维森南语中被称为Sciant技巧的短语密切相关。纽曼指出阿尔伯特大帝（约1200–1280年）是这场辩论的参与者之一。虽然纽曼只部分报道了阿尔伯特对阿维森南格言的参与，但本文旨在通过研究阿尔伯特对Sciant技巧格言的处理方法的一系列进一步来源，丰富我们对这一事件的了解，从而更好地了解它在这位多明尼加大师的作品中所扮演的角色。

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Early Science and Medicine HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Early Science and Medicine (ESM) is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the history of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the end of the eighteenth century. The need to treat in a single journal all aspects of scientific activity and thought to the eighteenth century is due to two factors: to the continued importance of ancient sources throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and to the comparably low degree of specialization and the high degree of disciplinary interdependence characterizing the period before the professionalization of science.