Ivo Purš – Vladimír Karpenko:
Alchemy in the Czech lands I.

Abstract

The first signs of knowledge and its further spread during the Middle Ages. This work follows the acceptance of alchemy in the late medieval Czech lands where alchemy emerged approximately 100 years later than in Western Europe. The biggest progress of alchemy comes under the rule of Charles IV when new terms for alchemy and alchemist appear. Further development of alchemy was interrupted during the rule of Wenceslaus IV and the Hussite wars with the first Czech work on alchem being published no earlier than 1457.

Language: czech

Keywords: History of alchemy, Czech medieval science, Johannes Ticinensis, Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit.