Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the medieval alchemical debate about the artificial and the natural. It then focuses on a university figure of the early seventeenth century, Daniel Sennert. Sennert is known today primarily for his corpuscular theory of matter, which had a significant impact on figures in the New Science such as Joachim Jungius and Robert Boyle. The chapter focuses on one of the most popular alchemical texts of the Middle Ages, the Summa perfectionis attributed incorrectly to an Arabic Geber. Sennert's De chymicorum of 1619 treats the distinction between artificial and natural products at some length. The pretext for opponents of chymistry, such as Thomas Erastus, who deny that natural substances are really composed of the three Paracelsian principles, mercury, sulfur, and salt. Keywords: alchemical laboratory; Aristotelian alchemists; Daniel Sennert; Paracelsian principles
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