Место издания:Издательство Московского университета Москва
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Аннотация:The paper explores the role of the Hermetic traditionin the intellectual transformation associated with theemergence of scientific chemistry in early modernEurope. Rather than viewing Hermeticism andalchemy merely as irrational forms of knowledgesuperseded by modern science, the study interpretsthem as productive intellectual contexts in whichnew experimental and mathematical approaches tonature developed.Drawing on historical and philosophical scholarshipon the Corpus Hermeticum and Renaissancethought, the paper examines the changing receptionof Hermetic authority from the fifteenth to theseventeenth centuries, including its integration intoalchemical and medical practices and its subsequentcritical reassessment. Special attention is given to theformation of a transitional intellectual complex inwhich symbolic, religious, and experimental modesof inquiry coexisted and interacted.It is argued that Hermeticism functioned as a catalystfor the scientific revolution by shaping researchmotivations and conceptual frameworks, even asit was gradually excluded from the standards ofscientific rationality. The emergence of scientificchemistry is therefore interpreted not as a simplerupture with Hermetic and alchemical traditions,but as a reconfiguration of the relationship betweensymbolic and experimental knowledge, resulting in atransformation of epistemic meanings.
