A book created by Andityas Matos, doctor at the Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil and at the Universidad de Coimbra in Portugal. Professor at the Faculty of Derecho de la UFMG.
Member of the Bibliophiles.
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A very interesting book and accompanied by a beautiful repertoire of important images taken from alchemical books.
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In 1666, chemistry obtained the status of a science. Its inclusion in the Académie des sciences forces it, however, to get rid of those parts considered “inconvenient”: chemists had to abjure from chrysopoeia “the transmutation of metals into gold” and from the search for the philosopher’s stone. These were relegated to the margins of alchemy, which became an independent field. However, although peripheral, alchemy has always been a site of resistance. Far from being a simple “grandmother” of chemistry, her vision constituted an alternative to the dominant logics of the Western rationalist tradition. For alchemy, the world is an organic whole, total but not totalizable and, therefore, not systematisable according to a single experimental method. Characterized by a paradoxical, often contradictory rationality, it has therefore been condemned to the status of pseudoscience; This book saves the alchemical language and principles and celebrates them as fundamental critical tools, semi-transgressors of a knowledge that allows us to rethink current political and philosophical systems.
