{"id":290,"date":"2013-11-21T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/alquimia-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:33:23","slug":"alquimia-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/alquimia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Arnau de Vilanova an alchemist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arnau de Vilanova is one of the great names in mediaeval alchemy because of both his <a href=\"mite\">legendary fame<\/a> and the number and importance of the alchemical works falling under his authorship. Indeed, the <a href=\"alchemical corpus\">corpus alqu\u00edmic<\/a> attributed to him in the Middle Ages was composed of around 20 texts, one of the two most extensive ones along with the corpus that has spuriously been attributed to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/quisestlullus.narpan.net\/2_pseudo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Raimon Llull <\/a>. So did <a href=\"alquimista\">Arnau truly experiment with and write about alchemy<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/NortonsOrdinall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/NortonsOrdinall.jpg 399w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/NortonsOrdinall-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/NortonsOrdinall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/4alquimistes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/4alquimistes.jpg 338w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2016\/10\/4alquimistes-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">Illustration: A mediaeval miniature transformed into a early modern engraving. The four great alchemists: Geber, Arnau, Rhazes and Hermes, in a mediaeval miniature of <em>The Ordinall of Alchemy<\/em> de Thomas Norton (MS British Library Add. 10302, c. 1477) and in an engraving printed in <em>Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum<\/em> by Elias Ashmole, London, 1652, p. 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnau de Vilanova is one of the great names in mediaeval alchemy because of both his legendary fame and the number and importance of the alchemical works falling under his authorship. Indeed, the corpus alqu\u00edmic attributed to him in the Middle Ages was composed of around 20 texts, one of the two most extensive ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/arnau\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}