Inevitably discussion of anyone aspect of his thought involves other aspects. Since More is a figure who belongs to the Renaissance tradition of unified sapientia he is not easily compartmentalised in the categories of modern disciplines. In THE ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY, Robert Cox reviews the alchemical lore of these. MIND INTO MATTER e-book ISBN: 9781609255404 Author: Fred Alan Wolf Price: 11.99 Imprint: Moment Point. Fishpond Fiji, The Elixir of Immortality: A Modern-Day Alchemists.
And More has been studied in the context of seventeenth-cen tury science and the wider context of seventeenth-century philosophy. ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY ISBN: 9781594773037 Author: Robert E. Latterly, however, interest in More has been rekindled by renewed interest in the intellectual history of the seventeenth century and Renaissance. And he has come to the attention of philosophers thanks to his having corresponded with Descartes. There has been considerable interest in his poems. Much of the interest in More in the present century has tended to focus on one particular aspect of his writing. Blood-red cinnabar and gleaming gold fickle mercury and fiery sulphur: these were the ingredients of immortality, according the Chinese alchemists of the Tang dynasty. He has been dismissed as credulous on account of his belief in witchcraft while his reputation as the most mystical of the Cambridge 2 school has undermined his reputation as a philosopher. Cox 3. Since then such attention as there has been to More has not always served him well. The Elixir of Immortality: A Modern-Day Alchemist's Discovery of the Philosopher's Stone by Robert E. Covers resurrection, the immortal soul, reincarnation, animistic transfornation, longevity, as. This revival of interest is in marked contrast to the neglect of More's writings lamented even by his first biographer, Richard Ward, a regret echoed two centuries after his 1 death. A short history of how human cultures have understood and attempted to achieve immortality, with global coverage from the ancient Near East to the present. Of all the Cambridge Platonists, Henry More has attracted the most scholar ly interest in recent years, as the nature and significance of his contribution to the history of thought has come to be better understood. The immortality of the soul is greatly speculated upon in this treatise but its author adds that we can attain to this knowledge only through a complete comprehension of the numbers for the man, unable to distinguish the straight line from a curved one will never have wisdom enough to secure a mathematical demonstration of the invisible, i.e., we must assure ourselves of the objective.
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