The Alchemy web site on Levity.com
Timeline of alchemists
This chart depicts the lifes of key alchemists and related writers, from the 13th to the end of the 18th century. By placing each writer in a historical context, this will help us understand the influences and borrowing of isdeas. Where precise dates are not known I have used ....... instead of the -------.Back to timeline page.
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--Michael Scot-------------------
---------------------------------Albertus Magnus---------------------------------
---------------------------------Hortulanus------------------------------
..........................Bartholomaeus Anglicus........
------------------------------Roger Bacon----------------------------------
---------------------Thomas Aquinas----------------
-----------------------------Arnold of Villanova-----------------------------
-----------------------------------Ramon Lull-------------------------------------
............................John Dastin............
................Petrus Bonus..........
--------------------Geoffery Chaucer-------------------------
-------------------------------Nicolas Flamel (supposed)--------------------------------
.........................Isaac Holland......................
.............................Georges Aurach..............
----------------------------Bernard of Treviso--------------------------------------
...........................George Ripley--------------------------------------
............................Lacinius..................
----------------------------------Thomas Norton-----------------------------------
----------------------Marsilio Ficino-----------------------------
-------------------------Johannes Reuchlin--------------------------
------------------------------------Augurello--------------------------------------
----------------Trithemius of Sponheim-----------------
------Pico della Mirandola------
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----------------------------Francesco Giorgi-------------------------------
--------------Henry Cornelius Agrippa-------------
------------------Paracelsus--------------------
---------------------Georg Agricola---------------------------
---------------------Thomas Charnock--------------------
-------------------------------------John Dee-------------------------------------
------------------Adam von Bodenstein-------------
---------------------Thurneisser zum Thurn-----------------------
---------------------Valentin Weigel--------------------
-----------------------------Giambattista della Porta----------------------------
-----------------------------Andreas Libavius-------------------------------
-----------------------Petrus Severinus----------------------
------------------Joseph Duchesne (Quercetanus)-------------------
------------------Giordano Bruno---------------------
-------------------------------Francis Anthony----------------------------
-----------------Edward Kelley-----------
---------------Heinrich Khunrath-------------
--------------------------Francis Bacon---------------------------
-----------------------Michael Maier---------------------
------------------------------Michael Sendivogius--------------------------------
-------------------Robert Fludd----------------------
----------------Jacob Boehme---------------------
----------------Johannes Battista van Helmont----------------------
------------------------------Arthur Dee---------------------------------
---------Oswald Croll--------
--------------Johan Daniel Mylius----------
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-----------------------Johann Valentin Andreae-----------------------
-----------------------------Amos Comenius------------------------------------
-------------------------Samuel Hartlib----------------------------
-------------------------Barend Coenders van Helpen---------------------------
-----------------------------Athanasius Kircher-------------------------------
------------------------Sir Kenelm Digby-----------------------
------------------------Rudolf Glauber-------------------------
------------------------John Junior Winthrop--------------------------
-----------Nicholas Culpepper----------
----------------------------------Elias Ashmole----------------------------
------------------------Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont-------------------------
---------------Thomas Vaughan----------------
---------------------------------------Helvetius-------------------------------------
----------------------------Robert Boyle-------------------------
-------------George Starkey-------------
-------------John Heydon.....................
-----------------Knorr von Rosenroth------------------
-----------------------------------Isaac Newton--------------------------------------
-----------------Johann Conrad Barchusen------------------
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--------------Louis-Claude de Saint-Germain-------------------
--------------Karl von Eckartshausen----------------